cultural norm shift → … meeting Paris Agreement target
I don’t think this chain of causes and effect can be ruled out a priori.
Before the Copenhagen agreement banned CFCs, there were activists boycotting aerosol cans!
Tesla (and, before them, Toyota, makers of the Prius) benefitted greatly from buyers’ guilty consciences! (And that’s a good thing!)
Wind energy was expensive and countercultural in the 70s; hippies did early R&D!
There’s another weak link in identifying “people paying for an indefinite solution to a problem” with “cultural norm shift”. Tesla’s master plan didn’t need to have any such “BS steps”. I prefer if we don’t have to start modeling the psychology of whether it helps society when people are kidding themselves in a certain way, instead of just definitely steering toward where we need to go.
I don’t think this chain of causes and effect can be ruled out a priori.
Before the Copenhagen agreement banned CFCs, there were activists boycotting aerosol cans! Tesla (and, before them, Toyota, makers of the Prius) benefitted greatly from buyers’ guilty consciences! (And that’s a good thing!) Wind energy was expensive and countercultural in the 70s; hippies did early R&D!
There’s another weak link in identifying “people paying for an indefinite solution to a problem” with “cultural norm shift”. Tesla’s master plan didn’t need to have any such “BS steps”. I prefer if we don’t have to start modeling the psychology of whether it helps society when people are kidding themselves in a certain way, instead of just definitely steering toward where we need to go.