We cannot decarbonize the energy supply fast enough to prevent a total humanitarian nightmare. We must also reduce energy consumption through both efficiency gains and fundamental shifts in cultural values, such as the entitlement people feel to not having to share space with their fellow man.
I am a TSLA shareholder, I am very glad that EVs and solar power and batteries are going to play an important role in the overall solution, but it is simply bad math to think its a solution. The land use, infrastructure costs, and energy demands of sprawling detached housing are not currently priced into the market. They are externalized onto the people who are already suffering in a 0.75C world, and we're on a screaming path to a 4C world.
Believing magic technology will save us is simply the naive liberal version of denialism.
your first sentence is an extremely disingenuous and bad faith argument. we did not have anything remotely like two car family quarter acre lot suburban sprawl. we also had nearly a full order of magnitude fewer people.
I also never said "everyone". this is very common response from people who feel personally attacked, they respond defensively with an extreme re-formulation of what was said.
you're posting on HN so i'm hoping I can appeal to whatever piece of your brain is capable of reasoning in the abstract. look at both lines of your response. think about them.
if you want the long answer this is a good book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004Z2NQCS/