Desalination has serious drawbacks. If you chuck the resulting brine back into the ocean you create a massive dead zone. And rather than create yet more waste with nuclear, just use solar/wind since created fresh water can be easily stored - the intermittent nature of renewables isn't an issue.

Another factor is an after effect of the ice age ending. All the weight pushed down the northern parts of N American continent. It's still spring back, causing rise in the north...and lowering in the south as the plate tips back

And we should definitely cut canals into the mangroves to facilitate oil rigs ;-) That was a definite positive decision lol

Except that's not what that is - in fact it's basically the opposite.

Cities build layers as the constructions degrade/erode and new stuff is built on top of that. There may or may not be sinking going on, but cities are generally rising on top of previous settlements. linky

this is consistent with "don't be evil" BDS movement is evil and supports islamic terrorism

supporting terrorist = ethics?

80% of gaza supports the 10/7 massacre, far as i am concerned US should send israel as many bombs as they need

luxury space communism, right?

right?

the wife's attorney submitted the paperwork to the court to finalize the divorce

the wife's attorney/attorney's E&O insurance is gonna end up eating this one

That seems crazy to me--electricity is so much cheaper these days. Where are you getting that stat? If it's true, it's FASCINATING. Like, why even BUY a PHEV if you're not going to plug it in?

the ramifications are that curmudgeons stuck in the fucking 80's can't inflict their bullshit on users

There need to be more PHEVs for the transition. After researching cars for the last year, I've decided that my next one will be a PHEV of some kind, because none of the errands I run will ever take me more than the 60km-ish range of the battery, and then when I do actually have to drive somewhere far away (my Mother lives 1000km away), I don't have to worry about fuelling. I'm also planning to lease it, because the landscape will be completely different in 3 years.

FWIW, when the power goes out, a lot of modern EVs can power your house for a few days. And solar could basically make you fully independent. But honestly, I don't think you should have to bear that cost.

(And, as usual, keeping something that's already working is nearly always better than getting something new from a carbon standpoint. Why replace anything if your shit works? I'm only planning to buy a car because I haven't had one for 10 years, but I've moved to a city where I could use one more often.)

Yeah, it's worse and stupider because we could be building rail to those places and making PHEVs more available, but we're not. But besides that, we DO have urban Vancouver (2.9 million people), urban Toronto (9.7 million people in the region), urban Montreal (4.6 million people), plus Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and a few others close to 1 million each. EIGHTY PERCENT of Canadians live in urban centres.

We love to make excuses for our inaction here in Canada. "Oh, the country is SO BIG. This problem is intractable! Let's just give our money to oil companies and hope they voluntarily lower emissions so we meet our global obligations! Wah!"

We do nothing and demand that the government does nothing either.

Carbon tax? Forget it! Promote EVs! No way! What we want is the good ol' status quo, planet be damned.

I hear a lot about "made in Canada" solutions, and frankly, so far, they all suck. Why don't we just do what other countries have learned have worked: build more bike lanes, make better public transit, build high-speed rail lines. And yeah, phase out SELLING petrol cars in the next 11 years. Just do it. Stop complaining unless you have an actual solution that isn't some BS slogan like "axe the tax".

Honest to god, we're a nation of absolute defeatists sometimes. We want to outsource the building of everything to corporations and do nothing ourselves. It's absurd.

It strongly depends on where you live. I'm in Penticton, BC, and there are times of the year where renting is easy. That is, any time that isn't the summer, because we're a big tourist destination in the summer. Between May and October, forget about short-timeline rentals. You need to book MONTHS in advance.

As to the proposal that EVs be made compatible with small generators: that's a lovely idea on paper, but I think you're deeply underestimating how much design that would take. A generator is heavy and hot. It needs ventilation and a way to fuel it. You can't just throw it in the trunk or the frunk. The generator itself would have to be okay with being in a confined space and not be a fire hazard or a fuel spill hazard. Like, little generators that you plop in your yard aren't being used at highway speeds and don't have to be built to be safe in the event of a collision. Nothing about that idea is practical, and to make it practical would take an insane amount of design.

Honestly, for people in North America that take long road trips sometimes, but need very little range most of the time, a PHEV like the plug-in Prius or similar is absolutely the answer. You get from 50-75km on battery alone, more than enough for errands around town. The Prius has something like a 1000km range when fully charged and fuelled up. It's an incredible solution, and it's not even that much more expensive. I honestly don't even know why mild hybrids exist anymore, the PHEV is far superior and has all the advantages of what you're talking about with a generator.