Jonathan Schofield2d ago

EVs are made with metals smelted with ~2 tonnes of coal, making about 4 tonnes of CO2. The coal is transported with diesel derived from oil. Which is extracted with steel. Which is made with coal.

EVs use fewer resources over their lifetime than infernal-combustion. So that’s good, assuming all the oil products they rely upon throughout their lifetime (e.g. bitumen) continue to flow.

But we’re probably past peak diesel. Perhaps we can examine our predicament more fully?

#climateDiary #iran

Show threadEF2d ago
@urlyman it irks me when people claim EVs are green. Getting rid of a slightly used ICE powered car for an EV is far from green. Buying an EV is not green. EVs use rarer metals and toxins to process them. My 20 year old diesel to do less than 1000 miles per annum is far less polluting.
Show threadJonathan Schofield2d ago
@EF it’s because our sense of what is ‘sustainable’ is the thinnest of epistemological veneers on a literal inferno of industrialism powering designed obsolescence
Show threadEF
@urlyman GDP and being like the Joneses are bonkers. The misinformation floating around is unbelievable but the masses do any wave their green virtue flags around.
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