Less than half [of Americans] think electric cars are better for the climate. Pretty damning, considering there is strong consensus that EVs have a lower carbon footprint (even when the electricity mix is pretty heavy in coal).3 Electric cars are certainly better for the climate in the United States.
@jenbanim "Batteries are bad actually" is one of the most insidious things the pro-warming crowd have put out recently. Like sure there are lots of environmental and social impacts of making batteries, but coal extraction involves literal mountaintop removal and other kinds of surface mining, and oil is prone to leaks that devastate entire regions for years.
This seems like a common thread for a lot of alternative energy stuff. We just magically forget all the bad stuff about conventional energy systems and focus on the downsides of the new ones, because they're new and unfamiliar and thus scary. I don't really know how you fight this, until there's been generations of people who found nothing scary about solar panels, batteries, wind turbines etc, the bias people have here will make the concern trolling effective.
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