It’s always a bummer when you go into these threads and you see all the doom and imagination-less folks mixing up calls for sobriety (= voluntary consumption reduction) with innovation break or regression.
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Like I already hinted to in my original post. We should be actively aware of our consumption of resources. I know these sort of discussions devolve into a binary debate similar to gun regulation discussions. I take the middle ground, I know cars are not going anywhere for a lot of the world and I am happy to see any innovations we can get. We should definitely be exploring other forms of transportation but again, the conversation here was about EVs and not building bike lanes.
Totally agree with that. I wasn’t responding to bike lanes but to (should have pointed it in first post):
> we cut the population in 75%+ and go back to some kind of agrarian lifestyle?
This seems to assume a population control will directly lead to an agrarian life. That may happen as a secondary effect. Some people (me included) think that won’t. It is a controversial subject but we’re definitely moving forward through the Overton window. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window