Whether it is fuel propelled cars or electrically propelled cars, it doesn’t matter. The entire concept of cars is using up too much of the earth’s natural resources, and many of those materials are toxic in their production, including the mining of cobalt.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2300396018301836#:
Even the number of roads that are constantly having to increase in their width and their reach is destroying our environment. If you’re really interested, you can find this all out yourself. I do not have the time to do this for you. You either want to understand the big issues or you just so badly want a car that you don’t look at the entire production cycle and the massive amount of toxic production that goes into sustaining continual car production.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/15/new-map-reveals-shattering-effect-of-roads-on-naturehttps://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F1-4020-4494-1_173
There doesn’t have to be an Elon Musk of public transport. To my mind, Elon Musk is crazy, unstable, and stupid. He is also a conman, convincing people of lesser intelligence that he has the answers. He doesn’t. All we need is government to create good public transport.
Sorry, Switzerland doesn’t even come close to having the best public transport. And it absolutely does work. People who have good public transport have no desire to own a car – myself included.
And the fact that you prefer to use a car says more about your unwillingness to put the planet before your personal comfort than it does about public transport not working.
Elon Musk his mentally ill. He admits he is bipolar. And that means he goes through periods of mania where he is convinced that he is a super being and that he knows the answers.
With apologies, I have no desire either to win an argument or to educate you. My time is too limited. It’s up to you as to what you want to believe. So let’s leave it at that.
