{"id":60055,"date":"2021-10-23T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60055"},"modified":"2021-10-23T10:08:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T15:08:42","slug":"deconstructing-electric-vehicles-on-the-eve-of-glasgow-cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60055","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A lead human-interest story in the weekend\u00a0Wheels<\/a>\u00a0section of a major Canadian newspaper is about a 2-car family\u2019s transitioning from a hybrid to an EV as they \u201ctry to be more sustainable\u201d. They upgrade their daily car every few years to seek \u201cimprovements in fuel efficiency, reliability and technology\u201d. Electric vehicles (EVs) are feted by the automobile and ecojustice sectors as part of the \u201cjust transition\u201d to a future \u201ccarbon-neutral\u201d, happy, dignified quality of life. Another news item from the Wheels section was about the costs of home EV battery chargers costing about $2000; the chargers are plugged into electric outlets (electricity commonly supplied from fossil fuels or nuclear reactors), while the costs will be \u201cquickly re-couped in government rebates\u201d as public transportation subsidies continue their decline. So much for the climate emergency and for human justice, for morality and taking responsibility for mounting climate-caused human deaths and mass migration. Nothing in the newspaper about the indignation of ordinary, common people worldwide, especially among the young.<\/p>\n

Since the 1988 Congressional definitive testimony of James Hansen and other climate scientists, there is no discourse about \u201cStop\u201d: elimination of fossil fuel emissions quickly morphed into adaptation and mitigation which is now replaced by \u201ctransition\u201d. EVs is a representative example of focusing on one small part, conveniently deleting the whole. The whole EV picture must include externalities, life cycle analysis, consideration of non-essential production, impacts of its production on basic human needs, the urgent timeline due to non-linear climate processes, regional climate and sociopolitical processes and who EVs actually serve, EV\u2019s effects on carbon sinks, pertinent facts about human and climate history, loss and damage obligations and debt to people totally impacted and totally innocent regarding the climate emergency, alternatives, elucidating who is served in a \u201cjust transition\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26 A lead human-interest story in the weekend\u00a0Wheels\u00a0section of a major Canadian newspaper is about a 2-car family\u2019s transitioning from a hybrid to an EV as they \u201ctry to be more sustainable\u201d. They upgrade their daily car every few years to seek \u201cimprovements in fuel efficiency, reliability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[141,5493,13275,16000,328,32010,25985,7157],"class_list":["post-60055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-evs","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-glasgow-cop26","tag-greenwashing","tag-judith-deutsch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60056,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60055\/revisions\/60056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}