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by Scarblac 2346 days ago
Not the only way.

Driving less is much more effective than switching to electric vehicles.

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Right, but for the remainder of our lifetimes there will be hundreds of millions of cars on the road. Nothing will change that. What we can change is the type of car we use, which requires the energy intensive process of building and distributing these cars.
Incremental solutions are much easier to implement.
True, but they run the risk of taking too long when there are targets in force that require more radical change. That said, what often happens is that incremental change reaches a tipping point where either the demand or supply side causes a step change.