Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previously thought

Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by alistairSH on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:33PM (#26574492)

Bull manure. That's a choice you've made for yourself, not some larger truth about life.

I live in the suburbs (20 miles west of DC). My office is 1 mile away and I walk. The schools are 1 mile away; if I had school-age kids, we'd walk. I can walk or cycle to the grocery, the brewpub, coffee shop, post office, and burger joint (all 0.5-2 miles away). I rarely use my car during the week; the vast majority of my mileage is weekend trips to the mountains.

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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by _carbyau_ on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:20PM (#26576230)

Your last sentence is interesting.

Even having it all sorted for day to day living. You still have a car to go somewhere else.

I feel the same here in Australia. Much of our day to day living doesn't need a car. Some of our friends though are in small country towns that would be a big hassle to visit without a car.

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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by alistairSH on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:36AM (#26578956)

I’d love if I could take the train to the mountains, but the US (and Australia) is a large place with low overall density, so cars make sense for some travel.

But few American communities are planned with minimizing car use as a key tenet. I’m lucky to live in one that is.

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