It was already known that lack of intelligence is a problem, but i was far from imagining that this lack of intelligence was not a problem of illiterate people, but of educated people in rich countries.
Regarding the recent and bizarre news on a Tyre Extinguishers group who declared “war” on SUVs, it seems that in school no one explained to these idiotic young environmentalists basic things, such as that not all SUVs have the same level of carbon emissions, that an electric SUV does not have the same level of emissions of an SUV that only consumes fossil fuels, and also that there are many non-SUV vehicles with a level of emissions superior to many SUV type vehicles. Cristiano Ronaldo has many high emissions non-Suv vehicles !
But it’s even more idiotic to forget that the owner of a high-emissions SUV can have a lower carbon footprint than someone who owns an electric vehicle, but eats beef steaks (or hamburgers) almost every day. Several years ago someone recalled the obvious in the pages of the New York Times: “switching to a plant-based diet does more to curb global warming than switching from an SUV to a Camry” https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/business/worldbusiness/29iht-climate.4.7304417.html
Something quite different is the hypocrisy of many of these young people, who think that SUV emissions are to blame but conveniently forget about the emissions necessary to cool their houses in the summer and also to keep their houses excessively warm in winter so that they can walk around in their shirtsleeves to avoid the terrible inconvenience of having to wear a sweater.
Pacheco-Torgal 