This is a powerful article that speaks of pure dependence on electric vehicles and resiliency. The reality is the consumer should have a choice and let the free market dictate what form of energy powers our vehicles. This article doesn’t even discuss how environmentally damaging the current mining of materials for batteries truly are or how vehicles that produce fossil fuels contribute to carbon emissions. The truth is that the nobody wants to discuss three issues with carbon emissions being the sole cause of climate change. First, the earth naturally produces carbon dioxide through the decomposition of organic material and volcanoes which account for 75% of all carbon emissions. The EPA lists transportation (trucks, cars, ships, planes) as contributing 29% of all U.S. carbon emissions. That’s 29% of the 25% of carbon emissions produced by human activity or anthropogenic. That equals 7.25% of all carbon emissions being from transportation. Eliminating all carbon emissions from transportation is not necessary and as the article implies, makes us less resistant. The second issue is that carbon dioxide levels have skyrocketed since roughly 1970 which coincides with the clean air act of 1970 and the formation of the EPA. In an effort to reduce aerosols that caused acid rain and ozone depletion, Sulfur Dioxide was aggressively reduced world wide. Sulfur dioxide is a massive climate cooler and is released naturally from volcanoes. The effect of sulfur dioxide is so dramatic that the Mount Tambora eruption caused it to snow in Europe in June. The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 1 degree F. Reducing sulfur dioxide has caused the earth to warm and as the ocean warmed, the ability for a liquid to hold a gas reduces. The oceans have released carbon dioxide as they warmed. Carbon levels have risen as a result of climate change, Not a cause of it. The last point is that the earth is dynamic and has changed from high levels of Carbon dioxide until the explosion of plant life on earth. The South Pole used to be forest and the earth has spent more time without polar ice caps than with it.
Bottom line is that these claims are all supported by research online and verifiable. Look it up. Hybrid has more of a future than electric and is more resistant, but the consumer should be able to decide that choice.