If the electric craze continues, moving to “lithium miners and battery manufacturers” would seem an attractive and promising scenario, although the protection of animal and plant species has become a global concern. In such a context, the right socio-economic choices would be just as important as the right responses to ecological problems. While the country’s forest fires this year represented the GHGs of more than 415 million thermal vehicles, would the shift to electric vehicles (EV) be equivalent to a drop in the ocean of climate change?
Especially since this substitution requires a strong subsidy regime which is only used to replace one traditional vehicle at a time. Not to mention the additional costs of a loss of gas taxes and a major repair of our roads, lithium batteries being susceptible to shock and vibration. […] All this seems paradoxical given our enormous responsibility to maintain and preserve our boreal forest, one of the main planetary lungs. EV can be a good response to support the energy transition, but can it address the urgency of massive reforestation in the country and increased efforts to better equip ourselves in the fight against forest fires? […]
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