Re:World on 'catastrophic' path to 2.7C warming, warns UN chief
by coryrc on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:53PM
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They won't happen in the US. Seattle has 89% single-house zoning. We just invested $54 billion in a transit system which can never carry the majority of the metro-area commuters even when it finishes in thirty years. It's too late and a dollar short.
EVs are way better for the environment than gas cars while asking so little from the user. And we still won't make this tiny sacrifice.
If you want to make a dent in the problem you need useful mass transit everywhere. Useful is more important than everywhere - useful will get people out of their cars, while everywhere gets people driving by and ignoring it because when they last looked it wasn't useful. (best to assume once every 5 years unless someone else finds it useful and raves about it)