The move to electric cars is a positive one. It doesn't matter if sometimes they are recharged using coal power plants, that won't always be the case. It's the move to electric and away from fossil fuels that is important.
Be that as it may, it is not the solution to a far bigger problem. For electric cars we still need to plunder mother earth. Lithium is the next fossil fuel, and if not lithium it will be cobalt, etc. None of this stuff is in endless supply. And it is not just CO2 that poisons our atmosphere. Think of al the other shit that is released during production of all the goods we consume.
Until scientists find a way to make all the needed elements from thin air, without any form of pollution, we will run into the same kind of problems over and over again.
Yep, but we don't have to solve all problems all at once.
If we panic and be all "doom&gloom" then nothing gets done. It's much better to just solve one problem at a time.
Once most cars run on electricity it's extremely easy for manufacturers to pivot to any newer/better/greener energy storage system that appears. It's just a black box that produces electricity and next years model of car can use it.
But, getting everyone away from burning fossil fuels takes a long time since it requires a massive amount of infrastructure changes. If we can take care of the massive infrastructure change to electric now then we will be in a much better position later when newer/greener storage tech appears.
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