at the end of the day most families on low incomes will not be able to afford EVs or energy saving mods to their houses, grants or no grants, when they need every penny.
Converting us fully to renewable energy is going to be a long and tough haul.
It's always the poorest in any society that are hit hardest, not only are they less able to take advantage of technology that reduces carbon emissions, but they are also disproportionately affected by the results of the rest of society not doing so, through exposure to air pollution or heatwave temperatures. I don't however see that as an argument for not trying to reduce carbon emissions through the use of EVs.
There is absolutely no doubt that if we are going to prevent runaway climate change effects, the costs on all of us are going to be massive. There are people out there who are arguing that the cost of doing so is so great that we might as well just accept that it's going to happen and live (and die) with the consequences - and I'm afraid they might well be winning the argument.
I'm really quite glad that I don't have any children or grandchildren, they are the ones who are going to have to live with the results of the actions we take now, we'll all be dead anyway in 20 years or so.
