I think electric cars are a brilliant idea as a way to move the pollution away from the nostrils of pedestrians in town centres. But as a general way of saving the planet I can't see they make any difference...just a different set of polluting and rare resource materials to mine.
It seems to me that when people talk of saving the planet they are really talking about trying to keep the climate in a static, idealised state that theoretically existed just before we were born. In reality mankind has actually existed in a constantly changing environment and the changes have led to mass migrations, war and all the rest of it.
We have absolutely no chance of altering this constant change and for some reason we totally ignore the existence of unforeseen consequences.
I must go and have a lay down......
