Ultimately the government has a duty to restrict people from doing things which are significantly harmful to others. We know enough about what greenhouse gas emissions are doing and will do in the future to know that we need to move away from using fossil fuels for things where they aren't essential. Unfortunately cars are one of those things.
If global cement production was a country, at 8% of the overall total, it would be in the top 5 for greenhouse gas emissions. So should we also ban construction utilizing concrete?
Formerly David Roberts at Vox, he has been independent for a couple years now via substack and podcasts. (in the last few years he has both wrist surgery and cancer so he is doing more audio even if he prefers writing)
Well he tracks all the ways new techs are coming on the market to reduce green house gases, including all the fancy stuff with concrete which still does CO2 but a whole lot less of it. Or using the same tech we use to drill for oil to create artificial geo thermal wells to get heat / steam energy from the earth crust. So on and so on.
His daddy was a cop, and this man David Roberts is a former libertarian, and he earnestly believes we can tech innovate around this, yet things have to change to do that. One has to build all this new stuff, and the new stuff will be better for us in the long term but it will cost money for a few years before it pays for itself (much like new cars do not pay for themselves, you gotta ride them into the ground, but there is a point in a cars life you are throwing money into a car that has 300,000 miles on it and it is time to move on.)
- 20/03/2024 11:52:36 PM
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