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Australian government loans $100m to install EV chargers and solar panels at Bunnings and Officeworks stores (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Eyekaytee@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone

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[–] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is great. Government gets their money back and big warehouses that are just sitting there soaking up the sun can be used more productively.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mostly don't agree. It encourges more car uptake, which is the worst of all outcomes.. We need to move away from cars. If we did these deatination buainess Bunnings wouldn't be able to exist anyway.

Why?

To take the poly crisis of Climate Change, Pollution, resource depletion etc serisouly we MUST move away from all cars, including Ecars.

Even the IPCC states this and we still keep ignoring them.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/04/22/international-climate-report-demands-systemic-changes-to-transportation-and-urban-planning/

but also makes clear that simply replacing gasoline with batteries won't be enough: cities must also dramatically curtail the use of automobiles and avoid "locking in" future emissions with more car-dependent infrastructure.

And a Climate Scientist

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-expert-comment-future-electric-fast.html

"Only by curbing all motorized transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possibly can we tackle the climate and air pollution crises"

We're already building GWs of new coal to make ecars

https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/110868169284217016

Here's a better way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGy4kS9T2w

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

I agree and disagree

I noticed you missed this first bit 😜

The report argues for increased use of electric vehicles

So looking at the report specifically for the bit I want to see and ignoring everything else:

Electric vehicles powered by low-emissions electricity offer the largest decarbonisation potential for land-based transport, on a life cycle basis (high confidence)

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf

I agree with you that it would be nice for places to be more cycle friendly, mainly because:

Roads: $146.8 million

https://www.logan.qld.gov.au/about-council/our-organisation/reports-and-publications/budget-fees-and-charges

Shits expensive, I would love for them to put $146 million towards public transport, mainly trains that run faster than every 30 minutes and don't take a damn hour to get to the city compared to 25 minutes by car and loads more non-road sharing bike lanes/tracks etc

But while Jay mentioned about having great cycling infrastructure in Steeeeeeeeevenage he flicks back to London with the point

https://youtu.be/_DNNIB_PdaA?t=375

But that still left me thinking, who cares if you're in Stevenage, if everywhere has cars and there's no traffic? What's the issue? If cars are powered by renewables so what