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This is such an incredibly put of touch take. Nobody cares about saving the world 100 years from now when its a decision between having the money to make rent or not this month. We on HN are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the normal experience. Its fine to make your proclamations about what a far-seeing moral superman you are, but that choice costs you nothing on the scale of what it would cost someone making the median income.

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My point, my only point, is that it is NOT about ideology. There is NO ideology about climate change, anymore than there is ideology about lightning, it just is. I was making no proclamation, I was just asserting that if people are lucky enough to be able to buy EVs, they would do so not because of ideology, but because they are in a position to do the right thing for everyone (as far as we can tell).

Of course many people don't have the luxury of making decisions that would help everyone - though if they lived in a fairer society, where wealth more nearly went to those that toil to create it, then maybe they could (now that is ideology!).

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