"Electric car range anxiety to be cured by battery that chargesin five minutes"
On 20/05/2021 00:08, Steve Walker wrote:
On 19/05/2021 16:57, GB wrote:
On 19/05/2021 16:18, Tim Streater wrote:
If the alternative is climate catastrophe, then I'm prepared to stop
occasionally.
How d'ye know that's the alternative?
Let's do a risk analysis:
Suppose all the scientists concerned about climate catastrophe are
wrong, then you'll be suffering a little inconvenience unnecessarily.
That's not the end of the world.
Suppose all the scientists concerned about climate catastrophe are
right, but we refuse to suffer a little inconvenience. That is the end
of the world.
It's not a "little inconvenience" when you are literally unable to get
to a family funeral in time without a petrol or diesel car!
its not a little inconvenience when you die from lack of power in a dead
hospital in winter
--
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established
authorities are wrong.
Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
|