Can Electric vehicles still be considered environmentally friendly when the factories they are made in still produce emissions?

  • fatbob42@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    There should be a name for this fallacy. Yes, making anything produces emissions if you go back in the supply chain - we don’t have a choice to avoid those emissions at the moment. The point is to make a world where it’s the other way around.

    I saw this recently from Apple - there’s no emissions directly in making Apple Watches but they’re going way back in the supply chain to scrub or compensate for emissions.

    • retiredminion@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      “There should be a name for this fallacy.”

      There is, Perfect is the Enemy of Good

      Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism which means insistence on perfection often prevents implementation of good

      There is also the Nirvana Fallacy

      The nirvana fallacy is the informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. It can also refer to the tendency to assume there is a perfect solution to a particular problem. A closely related concept is the “perfect solution fallacy”.

      By creating a false dichotomy that presents one option which is obviously advantageous—while at the same time being completely implausible—a person using the nirvana fallacy can attack any opposing idea because it is imperfect. Under this fallacy, the choice is not between real world solutions; it is, rather, a choice between one realistic achievable possibility and another unrealistic solution that could in some way be “better”.