The posts or articles you’re seeing are exposing you and others to a legitimate point of view you might not have considered. Evolution can make people uncomfortable because it implies that something is not working as it should. In fact, that is the case here: society is evolving away from fossil fuels. Reminder that even electric cars use fossil fuels. Most of the electricity in the US comes from natural gas (which is considered to be a fossil fuel), nuclear energy (not a fossil fuel, but with its own problems), and coal (shudder).

Despite the power of the automakers forcing cars down our throats over the past 100+ years, they are (a) not necessary, especially not in urban centers, and (b) a massively negative drain on society. Pollution, destruction of neighborhoods (especially low-income or non-white neighborhoods) to make way for roads, lifelong injuries, and death, death, death.

I’m not going to curse at you as you drive past, spewing invisible glacier-melting particles, but I will silently judge you if you’re using that car to take a trip you could have managed on public transportation or on foot.

Think of it this way: A person driving a car is damaging the environment for everyone, and is creating risk for everyone. In an ideal world, we should do all we can to reduce, and not increase, our negative impact on society.