[megablast]

Sure, it is harder without a car, but it not impossible. Somehow we have survived for a long time before cars.

[Evgeny]

We have also survived without electricity for a long time, so I'm not sure it's a convincing argument.

[eevilspock]

Yes, but one has lots of environmental and societal costs, while the other doesn't. If electricity were bad overall for society, his argument would apply to it too.

[Evgeny]

Isn't most of electricity these days obtained by burning coal? I remember figures around couple hundred thousand yearly just from that. Here is one of the sources

https://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/...