archive.today • What to Know About Biden's New Clean Cars Regulation - The New York Times
The quote is the very last paragraph. The media is so annoying. I often don't read articles from start to finish anymore. I scan them to find the bit that finally gets to the fucking point.
The other links are at the top of the homepage - https://www.nytimes.com/
It's a full-spectrum effort, there isn't a single silver bullet. You are objecting to one of the smallest changes that needs to happen.
Read Half Earth Socialism. Or if the S word scares you off read The Ministry for the Future. It's a hard sci-fi novel so it's entertaining. It illustrates at least the lower bound of effort that will be required in the coming decades.
I don't actually think policies from The Ministry for the Future are prescriptions for getting us out of this, that's why I recommended Half Earth Socialism. It does however instill an appropriate sense of urgency and scale in its narrative.
instead of bad faith and hostility, maybe you could try to have a productive discussion. the US economic sector emitting the most greenhouse gas is transportation. and 83% of transportation emissions are from cars and trucks. that second link goes on to show that using cars and trucks for personal transport and freight are the worst for CO2 emissions, except air freight (much worse than truck freight). but air travel emits less CO2 per passenger-mile compared to personal vehicles. there are many reasons China emits a lot less CO2 per capital than the US but one of them is the widespread use of mass transit