Comments on: Our Resolutions… https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/22/our-resolutions/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:22:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Doug https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/01/22/our-resolutions/#comment-839348 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:22:10 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32623#comment-839348 A lot of good thought went in those resolutions Greg, well done. One problem I see with electrification of transportation is the actual cost to buy a fully electric vehicle. Even hybrids are expensive and there you don’t have the environmental benefit of full electric. Massive subsidies based on the ability to pay will be needed in order to get the lower end of the economic spectrum fully onboard.

The cost to mitigate and adapt to rising seas, poor air quality, ecosystem collapse, extreme weather, floods, droughts, extreme heat and humidity, loss of biodiversity, forest fires, spread of infectious diseases, and invasive species dwarfs the cost of changing course and will increase dramatically.

This is a point I’ve hammered home in many conversations over the years. The cost of delayed action will far outpace the cost of doing what needs to be done now.

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