Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels

Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri... by CyanBird on Monday June 06, 2022 @08:54AM (#31639842)

> . I git rid of my car when I moved to London,

Yes, and if you hadn't moved to London then you would indeed have a car and consider it being part of your transportation "must haves"

In most of North America, and now Latin America and bits of Asia, car dependancy is a serious problem, cities being built, such as in China which are wholly car depending, and designed to punish non-car moving people, it is a bad, bad, bad state of affairs

Hopefully eventually most cities will move to a scheme closer to London's, but if anything, things might be moving the other way

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Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri... by nonrandomstring on Monday June 06, 2022 @09:04AM (#31639925)

> Yes, and if you hadn't moved to London then you would indeed have a car

I've since moved out of London, and still have no car.

> transportation "must haves"

There are no "must haves" in this world.

> car dependency is a serious problem, cities being built, such as in China which are wholly car depending, and designed to punish non-car moving people, it is a bad, bad, bad state of affairs

Yes, that's tragic. And I don't think those places have a long-term future as they are. Fortunately urban areas can undergo radical redesign. I think the post-pandemic is going to force that on us anyway.

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Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industri... by bluGill on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:06AM (#31640661)

There are many places where you can live without a car. However they are overall a minority. Most people in the US live where living without the car is next to impossible. either there isn't any transit at all, or there is transit that only works for someone working 9-5 downtown, but you are still expected to drive a car for all other errands.

Yes in the core of a few other cities (New York is most obvious) you can reasonably live without a car. Most people don't live close enough to the core though.

The bad transit options is the first thing that needs to change. However nobody actually cares about that. Democrats are more interested in union jobs even though it drives costs up to the point where it isn't cost effective. Republicans don't even realize that it would be possible to have useful transit and so they fight throwing good money after bad.

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