>Also, the main damage from cars isn't the manufacturing — over the vehicle lifetimes, the emissions from literally burning fuel far out-mass the manufacturing emissions.Again, personal vehicle ICE fuel burning is only a relatively small part of global emissions (about 9%). People are just fixate on it because it happens in their back yard so that's all they see everyday as the main polluter instead of the giant mines in Australia and Africa or the giant factory towns in China, or the oil wells, air travel, shipping industry, etc.
But there are lower hanging fruit which are a lot more environmentally damaging than those 9% of ICEs, except nobody's talking about them berceuse those are all big industry related and it's much cheaper to push the blame on the 9% powerless peasants driving ICEs so you can sell them EVs, instead of dealing and hurting the profits of the giant polluting industries out there that account for the other 90% and onto which the lifestyle of the world is tied to.
Rich western countries moving to EVs in 10 years will not alleviate this if countries like China, India and from Africa mine and burn even more fossil fuels as they industrialized further and lift even more people out of poverty.
>Not even close, and I don't know why your beliefs are so badly calibrated.
It's not my belief, it's been scientifically proven that the planet's climate cannot sustain the emissions from the mining and manufacturing efforts of transitioning all ICE cars on the road today to EVs.
>If we even attempt to solve greenhouse gas emissions just by reducing overall economic consumption, then whoever ignores that edict can trivially take over the world
That's the reason the climate issue will never be solved and why we're heading towards the iceberg of environmental destruction full speed ahead. Because everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too. Nobody wants to tone down on consumerism, wealth building and lifestyle enabled by fossil fuels, oil, gas, petroleum and manufacturing.
Something has to give. You either want to be rich enough to feed and house every mouth on the planet, or you want to have a habitable planet with less well off mouths on it. You can't have both with our current lifestyle and trajectory.
That's why we're doomed to destroy ourselves. Because no country or individual wants to compromise on their wealth and lifestyle. On this path we can expect extreme climate phenomenons to increase in strength and frequency, along with more famine, political and economic instability, wars and refugees. EVs alone won't save us from this.