Not that we shouldn't do that sort of thing, but to have any chance of this not being an absolute shit-show that causes an unprecedented global disaster, we need to do a hell of a lot more than just plant trees.

Basically everyone needs to do what China is doing in terms of renewables and storage build-out. The scale is unimaginable for most of us in the West. The biggest projects we ever did are tiny in comparison.

So, you're saying that peer reviewers can be bribed, but clearly weren't in this case?

That's very doable with current EVs. In fact about a decade ago Bjorn Nyland used to tow a trailer that size in the middle of the Norwegian winter, with an old Tesla.

A few hours journey is no problem, even in cheap EVs. Here, for under the equivalent of $25k before tax, you can get an MG that will do 3 hours of non-stop driving at motorway speeds. I've done it in March, in the rain and the dark. It's only when you push out to 5 hours that you need to stop and charge, but personally I need a comfort break anyway.

We've been making steady (if too-slow) improvements and the actions taken by Trump have erased them. So you can't blame the whole situation on him, but you can certainly place the blame for our reversal on him and his cronies.

You only have to remember that Slashdot does literally nothing to curb willfully abusive moderation, and it will all make sense.

I get modded down by obviously racist mods every day. So yes, it's obvious that AC comments are 99.999% shit, and you're 100% troll.

Free antimatter with every matter

Banks are highly regulated for the rich. Lots of laws to protect them and they are highly enforced.

There are substantially fewer laws to protect you and me. And they are barely enforced. When Republicans are in charge they aren't enforced at all and when Democrats are in charge the banks will drag out the enforcement action until voters inevitably put Republicans back in charge so they can get a slap on the wrist.

You may have noticed a lot of fines against Banks and financial institutions and might be wondering why since the guy in charge of the department of Justice is corrupt as fuck and the supreme Court is even more corrupt. Okay maybe not more corrupt but I mean that's a high bar.

This is the game we play. Voters go back and forth from Democrats to Republicans never actually learning a damn thing. And as I mentioned above Republicans do not enforce laws against anyone who goes after regular people. Democrats do but the court cases take so long to complete that they can just hold out until a republican is in charge of the punishment.

The most famous example is Microsoft antitrust. They just waited till Bush Jr was in charge and settled everything then and they didn't even get a slap on the wrist they got a reward. They gave out tens of millions of dollars of software that cost them nothing because well it's software to schools. Schools who they have been trying to force their software on for decades...

You cannot separate your economic well-being and future from politics but for some reason Americans try to. They try to make trade offs for nonsensical social issues. And I'm not talking about civil rights that's something else.

As more people get EVs, other people start to realize that they will work for them. They work for almost everyone, except for people with *very* unusual and special requirements. As for used, the situation isn't ideal at the moment, but here the standard is an 8 year battery warranty and repairs/replacements after that period are possible, so it's on a par with buying a fossil. Actually probably slightly better, as there are some really unreliable combustion engines on the market. JLR is notorious for them.

Found the usual child rape enthusiast proving they're a piece of shit both by supporting child rape and using "tard" as an insult

All of the small groups could change their behavior as much as they can afford to and it wouldn't add up to changing the behavior of just one or two of the biggest groups. The individual's power is limited as well, they choose from what's on the menu, they don't determine what's listed. Don't blame the victims.

"Acceptable"? Interesting.

If someone has told you at least once a year that the same thing is going to happen (world ends) in the same timeframe (20 years) for 50 years and were wrong about it each and every time, why would you ever listen to them?

Socialists pollute more and murder more. There is well over a century of evidence that Capitalism makes lives better and Socialism only brings horrors.

And nothing to do with the huge volcano in 2022 that pumped enough water into the upper atmosphere to warm the planet for a decade?