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EV fans have some reckoning to do. There's an argument that the carbon matters "more" than the other effects, but good luck not sounding like a psychopath saying the children gunned down by 8000lb pickup trucks with 0-60 times under 3 seconds and zero visibility are worth it for slightly lower carbon.
Meanwhile I'll keep riding my unsubsidized bicycle and not killing people. We should all have safe paths and trails to ride and communities designed for humans - that's where I'd like to see hundreds of billions go. We should absolutely also do a carbon fee and dividend (since this polls better than a "tax").