Re:Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
by avalys on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:21PM
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You're basically saying that you want to force everyone to live in a city - a super dense developed area where all your daily needs are within walking distance. Not everyone wants to live in a city!
Re:Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
by oats on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:08PM
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What? How do you derive that reading from the parent comment?
Re:Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
by ruined on Sunday October 01, 2023 @11:08PM
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it is possible to live in the country, with all of your daily needs within walking distance.
what will become impossible is the current fad of living in the "country" with a city lifestyle.
Re:Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
by whiddershins on Sunday October 01, 2023 @11:48PM
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What?
Re:Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
by Foreignborn on Sunday October 01, 2023 @11:59PM
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People are free to live where they want, but should pay for the full externalities that these lifestyles cost.
Re:Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
by trgn on Monday October 02, 2023 @09:01AM
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No, it's not what I said. Keep the car out in the country.
I wrote safe mobility options for all, so active modes of transportation are a viable alternative to the car. That applies both to the city and the country.
To make walking and biking safe, the implementation will be largely low-tech. Trees, bollards.
It's not EVs (high tech) that will trigger the transformation to curb pollution. It will be people choosing to walk and bike iso choosing to the drive.
It's simple. It's more mobility options, especially safe active transportation. EVs are still cars. It's a change in the margin. What is really needed is people biking, walking for their daily errands instead of using a car.
As for the safe part, it does not require anything special. The aspirational world of the future will be made real with bollards and trees. The american brain today cannot comprehend this. Yet it is a certainty.