Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts
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Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.

Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.

  • Coldgoron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    481·
    11 months ago

    Cars have become too much of a symbol of clout for many societies. I just wish humanity could get its shit together.

    • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      411·
      11 months ago

      Broke: I need a car to prove I’m not poor.

      Woke: Cars are the very things keeping us poor.

    • kaffeeringe @feddit.deEnglish
      92·
      11 months ago

      Is it really something that inpresses other people? I feel cars only impress their owners and they hope other people are as impressed.

      • justgohomealready@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Cars are seen as a status symbols in a lot of places, instead of as the utilitarian things they are. Where I’m from people will see you in a better or worse light depending on what you drive, for sure. Most young people get first in debt not for college, but for the 200.000km second or third hand car imported from Germany.

    • Cyberflunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      gesticulate wildly in every direction

      There are so many things humanity needs to get it’s shit together on