I get so sick and tired of people postulating "If everybody changed their behavior we wouldn't need sustainable innovation."
Well, unless you have a magic wand to change everybody's behavior, you are not helping. And even if you had you would lack respect for others.
Author @jennykleeman is now saying 'I didn't write the headline'. But the headline captures her article perfectly. She mentions none of the aforementioned problems and concentrates on yuck and how cultured meat can't be trusted by implying Singapore is an inferior country. Uhg.
Just to be clear: I'm not saying "we don't need to change our behavior because we have sustainable innovation". E.g. I love meat and cheese but eat vegan.
I think we should pursue both behavior and technology while realizing not everybody makes the same choices.
First the problems: in an article that touts the carbon neutral production of the ID.3, @volkswagen puts a comparison chart with an eGolf that has extremely high carbon production emissions. Not smart. I would replace it with an ID.3 based chart asap. volkswagenag.com/en/news/storie…
And while you are at it I would also cut/improve second 8 to 14 of the accompanying video because why bother telling lies about how much CO2 is emitted by the petrol and diesel Golf when you have such a strong story about the electric vehicle?
But it's not just bad for immigrant taxi drivers who see their entire livelihood threatened by the lies because they buy an electric vehicle with too little range and slow fast charging. It also leads to many more people dying of exhaust.
And finally it leads to combustion vehicles seemingly emitting less exhaust which in turn leads to newspaper stories claiming it takes 50k miles for an EV to emit less when it's already closer to 16k miles (and getting less all the time).
There's a study financed by EV sceptics Bosch, Honda, McLaren and Aston Martin doing the round, partly based on a study saying a Polestar takes 50k miles to emit less CO2.
Will debunk it this evening but could people maybe add links to places where it pops up?
@MLiebreich@Joost57437492 Everybody (well maybe 12 people so far) is asking me to debunk this article in the times. The problem: I don't know which study they are talking about. Can twitter help thetimes.co.uk/article/electr…
Polestar published some numbers on it's study in september polestar.com/dato-assets/11…
and if I look at the @thetimes article they copy the numbers from that study. I briefly talk about that comparison here: