B.C. introduces law to require cars, trucks sold by 2040 be zero emission
Ever notice how seemingly all the predictions and new regulations deal in a timeframe always conveniently 10 or more years into the future? Everybody embraces denial so eagerly, even the ones claiming to be confronting the problem. Coastal flooding, unprecedented storms &amp; droughts, crop damage, streams of refugees... these are happening NOW, and even if you stopped driving TODAY, like leave the car right where it&#x27;s parked, forever (which we all literally need to do) it wouldn&#x27;t be enough to &quot;stop&quot; climate change, since the climate <i>has changed</i>, for one thing, and since driving isn&#x27;t the only cause. Though it&#x27;s an important one, and if you never drove again, it would help. Minimally. And most people, a.k.a. &quot;you,&quot; are probably not even willing to do that.<p>This law, like most of the others, is well intentioned but still too weak; it&#x27;s &quot;provisional living&quot; just like how a junky&#x27;s plan to kick always starts tomorrow. Quitting an addiction is a pain in the ass, but hey, now that we have this great plan for 2040, we can continue business as usual today. And even this would be, politically, something of a miracle to get passed. You wouldn&#x27;t even be able to get it out of committee in, say Texas.