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How do we know that a feasible solution is replacing the cars instead of keeping the forests and plants alive and growing?


Your comment doesn't make sense - please explain.


Having electric cars is just moving the pollution to another place, were the power is generated. Forests and trees are the filter of the planet, if you don't have enough the pollution stays no matter what.


Having electric vehicles moves power production and emissions as a result elsewhere. That said it decreases the amount of emissions elsewhere since it uses cleaner energy. You still keep creating more parks and building forests/sustaining them. This is all part of a multi-pronged assault on climate change. You are creating a false option - such that it is only this or that.


> You are creating a false option - such that it is only this or that.

Exactly what I wonder, the pollution problem should not be turned into an electric car sales booster, it is a wider problem that needs to be tackled from different directions and I don't hear anybody making a wider analysis or plan.


Go to CARB and CEC they have the roadmaps for CA.




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