kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@vfrmedia

This process was largely driven by regulation - EURO car engine standards and petrol taxes were driving car manufacturers to reduce fuel usage and add features like catalysts for which there's absolutely no end-user demand (apart from a niche segment).

@jasper @lazarski

@jasper

Don't know about US but I have comparison with Eastern Europe.

In these countries people can be scared by many irrational things (5G, vaccines, nuclear power plants etc) but routinely ignore those that kill them most: smog from coal, car accidents and cardiovascular.

Coming myself from Poland I struggle to explain what is exactly the argument to ignore the latter. I guess in most cases it's just simple denial.

@lazarski

@lazarski

At the end of the day, preventing climate change is isn't really their primary priority.

And that's precisely why climate change containment is not like COVID-19...

@lazarski

There's also another side to that: Covid-19 containment action plan has clear and unambiguous goals.

In case of climate change we have probably a dozen of contradictory narratives, each of them fighting others.

Nobody is really concerned about *only* reversing the climate change. Some would like to sell more gas, some want to do a social revolution, some want to get rid of this or that, essentially everyone has some vested interests they want to do on the way.

@lazarski

Won't happen. Climate change consequences are diffused, same as with deaths from car accidents and cardiovascular diseases. People are unable to perceive such risks seriously. In case of Covid-19 politicians and businesses are concerned of short-term and mid-term losses which are quite likely. In case of climate change losses are long-term and uncertain, and they believe they have "emergency measures" at hand if things really go south.