*timesofindia.indiatimes.com/busine...breaks-in-fresh-blow/articleshow/89346068.cms
This is why India is not upgrading like other countries.
India is still far away from sustainable energy generation. I feel EV 4 wheelers are just a rich person's toy for now. But EV 2 wheelers with swappable battery is promising, hopefully, Bounce Infinity E1 & Simple One are actually good when they hit the road.
Energy can move towards sustainable ones in future. Even with coal, in the long run EVs produce less emission even though EV manufacturing itself is more environmentally damaging vs IC car manufacturing.
It's easier to replace a few hundred polluting power plants than it is to replace millions of small vehicles.
I would like to add that 70%+ of carbon emissions in the world are caused by just a handful of companies. So even if you follow a strict regimen to reduce your carbon footprint, all of your efforts are just a drop in the ocean.
All or most of those emission are to make products for end consumers like us. No matter which way we look at it we are hand in glove with the big corporations; hiding behind the veil of the common man.
It's a weird chicken-and-egg kind of scene. But then again the consumers don't own the means of production, so it's upto the companies to conduct their production responsibly.
Humans have been smoking for thousands of years. The fact was that life expectancy was so low throughout history that no one knew to specifically blame smoking. You could just die by eating bad fish or drinking from a different pool of water in a matter of days / weeks. Smoking in comparison took years to kill anyone and that too through secondary effects. The lobby part came in when tobacco got industrialized. No more buying tobacco, then buying rolling paper or a pipe, learning how to use them etc. Filtered cigarettes were introduced as a means of fooling people into thinking that smoking was safe. Many studies were doctored into saying smoking was not related to cardiovascular diseases. Later all this was found to be true. Smoking adverts were banned. Age and sale restrictions were placed. Taxes were increased. Come to the present day, despite a ban on advertisements and an ocean of data available online regarding the ill effects of smoking, the sales of tobacco products is still very high. It's the people again consuming what they desire. In fact due to the increase in taxes on tobacco products, the farmer who produce tobacco are seeing their crop stolen and sold in the black market.
Exxon accepting climate change theories will not change anything for us. We will still buy their oil. Their evil lies in the fact that they fund both climate change researchers and deniers. They are playing both sides on the field. All the while, we continue to consume their products no matter the evil they unleash.
Facebook and Byjus are pure evil. There is no salvaging them.
people are sheep, if being addressed and told properly of what to do they would do it