• EternalNicodemus
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    3 years ago

    Acktually, to use a VPN, you would need to turn on your PC or phone, which uses a small but existent amount of petrol -🤓

      • set_secret
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        3 years ago

        and EV car. also fuck petrol. and gallons while I’m here.

        • tetelestia
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          3 years ago

          EVs solve about 2 of the 20 problems cars create.

          • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website
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            While that’s true, they “solve”* the two issues that are most pressing with ICE cars, air polution and fossil fuel use. I’d rather have EVs over ICEs, and I’d rather have walkable cities and robust public transit than either of the car options.

            * are better, not perfect

            • moitoi@feddit.de
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              With climate change, we have a multiplication of flooding and heat wave. Cars increase the effect of both of them. EVs or ICEs, it doesn’t matter.

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          EVs are not and will never ever be the answer. It’s a myth like many created by the car industry.

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        3 years ago

        The real waste is in converting solar to electricity. Use fiber optics, powered by light! Simplify! 🥴

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      3 years ago

      Hydroelectricity, nuclear, wind and solar BABEEYYYYYY!!!

      • Harrison [He/Him]@ttrpg.network
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        Hydro destroys environments, uses enormous amounts of concrete and the related disasters have killed orders of magnitude more people than nuclear.

        • Bolt
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          3 years ago

          Orders of magnitude more than nuclear is a low bar, nuclear is quite safe. How does it compare to coal or oil?

        • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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          Yeah if three gorges broke then it would be the biggest mass death event in human history. Hydro dams are at the bottom of my list

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      3 years ago

      perfectly valid point to bring up on a community dedicated to hating on polluters even if it was originally just a joke. Pretty serious matters