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Originally Posted by DaveC113

The reason for GM doing this is because the rest of the world is going to require it. We may too, it depends on whether we decide to keep our heads buried in the sand or not. If we do it may mean an Earth that isn't suitable for human habitation anymore, so there are some consequences involved for getting it wrong.

IMO though, the real issue is the population and the fact it's much more difficult to support 10 billion folks vs fewer. What do you think the environmental cost is of raising a child vs choosing a car that uses a little more gas? Yeah, not even in the same league. Yet we can't talk about the subject. Instead we'll do everything else...

China, a country with 1.5 billion people... It's leader Xi just asked Chinese people to have more babies. They plan on encouraging population growth in the country with more people by about .5 billion than anywhere else.

With thinking like this, along with the thought that the most important asset a person has is his bank account, we're all f#$ked. Electric cars won't save us and we deserve to make ourselves extinct, because we are collectively too stupid to live.

You've done a good job disguising a lot of hot button politics in this post. Ouch.