Kuznet's Curve applies to the environment as well. I already mentioned to government's role in preventing tragedy of the commons is necessary, though its policies must allow the free market to reach allocative efficiency. Like most who have never read Solow's criticism of sustainable development, you seem to think that the environment will continue degrading into a meaningless waste and our children will revert to being savages because there will be no technological advances to avert the use of natural resources oh no none at all it's not like we developed inorganic substitutes for organic products or anything, right?

I was doing you a favor by ignoring the electric car, but since you want to press the issue: What about the electric car? It's a stupid fucking sci-fi invention and it wasn't practical in the 80s and it still isn't practical now. Ignoring for a moment that you seem to think it is a good idea for the government to force our corporations to build a product with no market and no infrastructure or global feasibility, production of electricity produces far more damage to the environment than fucking deisel engines much less unleaded gasoline. In the 80s, it was even worse because we didn't retrofit scrubbers into coal-fired plants. Only nearsighted fuckwits with no understanding whatsoever of the energy industry, the laws of thermodynamics, or the environment think electric cars are a feasible solution in a country that has halted expansion of nuclear power. Charging an electric car is just dumping guaranteed mutual destruction into the atmosphere while CO2 is at least not directly detrimental to human health.

Next you are going to tell me that the cleanest energy source is solar energy because it would be fucking fantastic if we could spend the next 100 years living in the shade or some other non-sensical piece of shit liberal yellow journalistic shithead solution.