Electric Vehicles Will Not Prevent the Collapse of Civilization. Here’s Why.
The Climate Problem
One might think, “Okay, it’s regrettable we can’t ship California pistachios to Milwaukee via battery powered semis, but diesel rigs are what we have, and they are working.”
Unfortunately, if we are serious about the climate, what we’ve got is not going to work that much longer. A recent study published in Nature magazine states:
“The peer-reviewed study, published in the scientific journal Nature on [Sept. 8, 2021] found that 90% of coal must remain un-extracted and nearly 60% of oil and fossil methane gas must stay underground to have even a 50% chance of keeping global temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius [2.7 degrees Fahrenheit] above pre-industrial levels.”
The 2015 Paris Agreement called for limiting climate warming to 1.5 degrees Centigrade. This was a limit scientists determined was important to keep the planet from reaching certain tipping points beyond which it would become harder to control the rise in temperature. The poles melting, the tundra belching methane, things like that.
It would have required participating countries to reduce fossil fuel use by 3% a year until 2050. On paper, that would have resulted in the now famous “net zero” carbon emissions touted…
