The world has experienced its hottest day on record, according to meteorologists.
The average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F) on Monday, according to the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction.
The figure surpasses the previous record of 16.92C (62.46F) - set back in August 2016.
No, but you could have sold the SUV instead to get the Prius. Your analogy fails beyond this point for the same reason your entire reasoning about nuclear fails: because you have chosen two cars that are the same level of harmful to the environment. Nuclear and fossils are not even close to the same level. So let’s rephrase this, so that it can actually convey the point we’re discussing:
You have two cars, a diesel pickup and an electric pickup. You need two cars and have the opportunity to get a Prius. You sell the electric pickup to get a Prius, instead of the obvious move of selling the diesel pickup.
Yes, technically you did not replace the electric pickup with a diesel truck. You just haven’t touched the diesel truck.
Still, what you did is functionally equivalent of selling the diesel truck to get the Prius (which was the expected behavior), and then replacing the electric truck with a diesel truck because you hate electric trucks for some reason. And that is my point. I don’t consider your actions in a vacuum, I consider it in the context of your potential. At the end of the day, your fleet still consists of a diesel truck and a Prius, while it could have been an electric pickup and a Prius, which would have been far cleaner.
In the meantime, your French friend sold their diesel pickup and now driving around with a BEV and a PHEV. And you complain that I point out that they did a much better job at reducing their environmental impact than you did. Which was my entire point from the beginning, not the technicality you insist on zeroing in on.
I’ve understood the point you are making from the beginning.
I just refuse to engage with it, because I’m not discussing enegy policy in the first place.
So you openly admit that you’re just detracting from it, focusing on a technicality.
I’m not considering the surface-level meaning of your words here. I’m considering your actions, because it’s a hell of a lot harder to lie with actions than with words. And your actions clearly show that you’re just propping up Germany’s policy of shutting off nuclear and therefore having to run coal where they wouldn’t have had to – and your claim here also confirms that you’re willing to be disingenuous and borderline trollish to do that.
But thank you for confirming that you’re out of arguments on that topic. I wish your country’s leaders could also be this reasonable, because their policy pollutes the same planet the rest of us are also stuck on.