But surely this is good news - from the article
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Not sure where you're getting your information but as far as I'm aware, the majority of EV batteries can be reused or recycled.
It is with regards to the leaf, yes. It’s just the Japanese car industry are going down the wrong route with hybrids. How many decent Pure EV do they make? The crushingly expensive Honda e, the cheap and cheerful leaf and… erm?
Isn't the real issue with batteries, and indeed a lot of resources, used for both ev and ice vehicles, that we will run out of resources even if we re-use older batteries that are coming to the end of their lives? The fact that they are nearing end of life, suggests that they have a finite useful span.
There's no fault, we all have the odd brain fart, sure I'll answer for 'Andy'
. I do think that as the cost of EVs reduces due to inevitable manufacturing efficiencies, that the government will want it's slice of it by increasing taxes to something akin to todays ICE costs.....but they will, at the same time massively increase ICE taxes to push phasing them out.
This is the crux, there are already too many people to safely consume the planets resources. The difficulty with reducing, even through disincentivising of having kids, is that there is an economic collapse tied in. Without growth the markets fail, capitalism is strangling the planet, but won't take it's filthy hands of it's throat.
You raise a very good point about capitalism being the driver of consumerism Mart.
I’ve been laughed off this board on more than one occasion regards limiting numbers. It is the only thing that will save the planet- less humans on it
It took me a decade to come to terms with that idea, but I can't see any other solution, and that means accepting that markets cannot infinitely increase in value.
This is almost entirely inaccurate. First part is probably semantics but the planet is almost certain (barring unthinkable scale asteroid collisions) to be absolutely fine for many billions of years. The human race however is another story. Check out the George Carlin bit on this topic.
Doesn’t make sense.
We aren’t killing the planet. It will wipe out the human race and within a couple of hundred years it will be like we never existed. The planet will flourish once again.
Seems unlikely Laughing although the estimates of how many animals and species varies vastly. Do you have a source please.
On animal species extinction? It was in national geographic last year. I don't remember where the study came from originally. If I get some time over the weekend I'll dig out my copy and look.
I'd have to suggest that you haven't really understood the concept of the runaway greenhouse effect.
I have considered it and humans would need to burn all of the coal, oil, gas, tar shale and tar sands.
I'm not sure that's true at all, they would need to burn MORE, not ALL, and since the human race is expanding and has been increasing the total burn for decades then eventually it would head beyond the point of no return. Great you've found one quote that just happens to be one of the first you find if you put "runaway greenhouse" into google, but that isn't proven science, there's lots of concern from a huge number of reputable scientists that a tipping point is reached where it's inevitable
Re-read the article last night Millbrook and you are right. What the article actually says is 40% of anima ls have died. Or there has been a reduction of wild animals of 40%.