NY to Phoenix is ridiculous by car, no matter what type. For much smaller distances I'd rent a car rather than add miles to my lease.

A tempting offer indeed!

Power generation demand can be affected in different ways as private transportation is electrified. It's not an all or nothing proposition.
What we see from China is that they can indeed produce a surplus of BEVs, they can add renewable capacity to the sources they already had, and they can therefore decide to use more renewables.

As fossil fuels demand shrinks, the demand for sea freight goes down as well. Moving fossil fuels to and from refineries is a significant part of sea freight.
As more family cars change over to electricity, the inefficiencies of ICE become more obvious: those who can make the switch need less energy to travel.

What might States do to accelerate the transition? The usual: adjust car buying related taxes to favour EV and make ICE less competitive. Keep the demands on legacy ICE manufacturers to make more efficient and less polluting vehicles.
End exemptions for "classic" vehicles, so that old cars and bikes keep doing roadworthiness tests each year (this is a pet peeve of mine, and might be UK-specific).

Then there are the BIG interventions that have not happened yet (to my knowledge): We can know with some certainty whether the next day will use a lot of fossil fuels or whether the renewable sources will be sufficient. At what point do we prioritise a "climate emergency" over regular productivity, and decide "tomorrow we're turning off non-essentials, everyone gets a lie-in until the solar farms are covering most of the demand at 11am."

Good points, if we disregard China, the largest auto market in the world.

In the West we could have State intervention to reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. It might even be cheaper than being customers to an oil cartel requiring permanent military presence.

From this side of the Atlantic I really don't see the equivalence between your 2 parties.

Thanks for that. I recently had a look at gather.town and kumospace, and believe this sort of enhanced virtual presence could be really useful. I'll give your WorkAdventure a try.

Exactly that. 10cm of average might have peaks that ruin their food supply, their sewage systems, etc.

If the trend is for sea level rising, it's a good thing if they have an alternative lined up. When the same becomes a necessity in Bangladesh and other larger populations that's when it will be chaos.

2nd best paying students. Those from outside the EU pay more as they were not entitled to treatment equal to that of UK citizens.

I wholeheartedly agree with the name-calling though.

Google and many others are selling the AI to answer phone calls and email, so it's all good.

The industry spent quite a lot of money to educate us like that and with important facts like V8 noise being the best. Or V2 if you listen to motorcycle marketers.

The population will need to find a way to do all that while paying rent/mortgages, which might prove difficult.

Years ago I worked at a gift vards/loyalty cards SaaS provider. Two unusual clients were a school that had gone cashless and a domestic cleaning franchise.
Someone transfers some money to the platform and then unbanked people make redemptions at different points of sale.

Is that really how it works? Don't they have multiple regions and special arrangements for US Gov+military and for China? I certainly have noticed in product docs that some services are not available or arrive late if your tenant is in one of these "special clouds".

Wow! I didn't know indoors weed farms were so mainstream in the US. That explains why everyone is so chilled.

One of the least creative slogans of the "Estado Novo" regime of Salazar was "Deus, PÃtria e FamÃlia".
Salazar was devout and so was everyone in Portugal - or else.

Another slogan they used would translate to "Proudly alone", in the sense that the Portuguese Empire was self-sufficient, international trade and travel severely limited. Look up the image/map showing that Portugal is not a small country.
  Those were dark times.

My opinion is that the challenge is too many people of the wrong age and too few people within the right age range.