New data from the American Lung Association has found that if the U.S. could transition to zero-emission vehicles and an electrical grid powered by clean, renewable energy, it could prevent 2.79 million pediatric asthma attacks and more than 500 infant mortalities by 2050.
So there’s no point in improving technology then? Shall we just go for highly polluting SUVs, just fewer of them?
That sounds like a strawman argument tbh. I didn’t say anything along those lines. I in fact agree that electric cars are better, just like smaller cars are better too but the basic problem, that they are cars, always remains. What improves cities the most is reducing the number of cars and rededicating streets and parking lots to sidewalks, bike paths, gardens and public parks.
Well that’s the point I was making with my comment. “We don’t need different cars” is just the wrong statement. We need to redesign our cities from the ground up to be planned around people, not cars. But that is going to take a good 50 years, assuming a decent amount of effort goes into it. We don’t have 50 years. We need better cars in the meantime, not just to ignore the problem they are until we reach the year-2100 utopia where everyone can travel in bicycles and hoverboards.