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Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t... by briansm on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:25PM (#37457366)
Here in the UK, if I had to travel 'just 4km' then I wouldn't take a car. In any case it's the other 50% of journeys that are 4km+ (20% of journeys are 10+ miles) that are the problem:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1230-marc...

The USA is a young country, built from the ground up around the automobile. Undoing that both physically and psychologically is just not possible in my opinion.

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Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t... by rootusrootus on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:04PM (#37457757)
The UK is smaller than Oregon. It's really not an ideal comparison.
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Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t... by amrocha on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:09PM (#37457817)
Doesn't matter how big it is, nobody lives in "Oregon" the same way nobody lives in "The UK".

People live in communities, cities, towns. You can build a human scale town in Oregon just as well as you can in the UK.

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