Comment by myrmidon
3 months ago
What is happening right now is that legacy carmakers have to compete harder because their core know-how lost value. That was somewhat inevitable, but banning/destroying that industry 10 years earlier would have hurt much more and would have been punished hard by voters.
> In Europe it's more a question of economics (like cost of electric cars for example) than a push back against pro-climate efforts themselves.
This is exactly my point- people don't like to suddenly pay more for the same just to avoid "climate debt" (and I'm willing to bet that your judgement on this is distorted, because most people in your bubble would accept some sacrifice for climate conservation, unlike the majority).
I am afraid this is not a personal choice of "accepting" something. If they dont accept drastical change in their lifestyles, they gotta accept billions of immigrants given that some countries become inhabitable sooner than others. Given the current geopolitical climate I think they'd rather shoot them at the borders though. Sad world.