- But air quality aways changes
- Man can't affect the air (weather)
- There is no consensus
- plants and animals adapt
- Ozone is Oxygen which is good for us
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Don't forget that this state is not one cohesive government. The CITIES where this is being said are largely blue cities that absolutely believe in climate change and do things to prevent it (though probably not enough). So please don't assume all the governments here are as stupid as the state government
Houston: "We're a blue city and we believe in climate change!"
Also Houston: 
Just one more lane bro, one more lane will solve our transit problems bro
Aw gee! Are y-y-you sure, Rick? I mean, it’s congested as fuck either way!
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And the rural asshats are 100% going to drive into town in their giant trucks because city folk said not driving is a good idea...
Leapords slowly ate the state.
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I’m not a Texas fan or defender by any means, but I do know Texans, and the state telling them to not do something will make them do it more out of spite
TEXAS NOOO PLEASE DON'T CREATE MORE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, MY LIB SENSIBILITIES WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT.
I personally feel owned by interconnected light rail, not gonna lie.
I didn't really need to go anywhere today, but now I'm considering it. Fuck you Greg Abbott. You can't scream oil at me and then tell me not to use it!
You're goddamned right!
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As a former Texas resident: The Texas government can fuck alllllll the way off with that. Design a city that doesn't need cars and people won't need to use them. Residents HAVE to use cars because the place is so fucking unfriendly to pedestrians.
Houston is one of the worst cities I've ever been to. Fuck you if you're trying to walk anywhere, fuck you right in the heart. That includes if you're walking to and from your ~~car.~~ massive truck
Also fuck you are you trying to drive? You fucking crazy?
I've hated only a small number of cities I've visited. Denver comes to mind, Los Angeles, Wichita Kansas, and if you took all the hate I have for those three cities, injected it with hgh and heroin, it would be a small shadow on the wall for the pure unadulterated rage I have for Houston Texas.
Gary Indiana wasn't as hostile. Fucking Ferguson during the protests wasn't as hostile. And I saw a carjacking 10 minutes after stepping off the fucking plane thé last time I was there.
Fuck Texas. Give it back to Mexico.
Mexico doesnt deserve that burden, lets just burn it down and declare it a national park.
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As a fellow former Texas resident, I can confirm and endorse this statement.
The Texas government can fuck alllll the way off with that...and many other things cough cough women's rights cough cough
As a pedestrian in one of the mentioned cities, this is accurate. We have an ok bus network but the schedules are terrible and getting around on foot is dangerous and it's like 100 degrees out with 90% humidity. Very few people put up with it and literally no one will because of this.
I'm from Texas, this isn't feasible. If you need to get from anywhere to any place else you're driving there. Depending on where you are busses may be hit or miss & may not even be an option. Pretty happy to live in a place now where I haven't needed to drive for years.
I know multiple people who don't even have a driver's license (and before I get comments about 'Europoors' -- No, it's not because of money, lol), including myself. Never needed one. Within the city I can walk, go by bike, there's buses and trams. For traveling farther (also internationally), there are trains. Most of the time I just walk everywhere. Multiple supermarkets within walking distance, train station within walking distance, bus stop in front of my door, tram stop 1 minute away.
My husband does have a license, but we own no car.
Can't imagine being forced to drive a car due to lack of other options. For a population very obsessed with so-called freedom, Americans seem to accept and demand very little freedom sometimes.
I have a friend that works in Texas and his IT department literally forced all their employees who have been WFH since COVID to start coming into the office 5 days a week again. So literally the opposite of what this article is stating. Companies need to be held liable for this shit, especially if they have infrastructure in place to easily adopt WFH.
An ask like this means at best the folks invested in fixing the problem are inconvenienced, while the "fuck you, I got mine" contingent keep on trucking (probably literally in their Fx50s).
Pass laws that incentivize doing the right thing, or don't pretend you in any way want to fix it.
Meanwhile, Ken Paxton has sued the city of Austin for ‘misleading’ people when it comes to the voter-approved light rail transit expansion. Oh, and TxDOT is widening I-35 through downtown Austin despite countless folks protesting and some organizations suing them to stop it.
Transit across the state SUCKS. Bike lanes are never properly separated. Light rail is sparse. Busses literally everywhere suck.
In Texas? Good luck. This is the state where people express themselves by putting horns on their cars.
It's also the state where you sometimes have to drive two hours just to get to the supermarket.
Yeah, I think the latter component is what makes this request ludicrous. Everything in Texas is so spread out. It is not a place you can reasonably get around without a car. Mass transit exists, but it's pretty inefficient in most the cities.
People who've never lived in Texas really don't get it. Everything is spread out to an almost ludicrous degree. I drive an hour to get to my friend's house, and I don't even consider him to be far away. We both live in the same metroplex.
Public transportation is almost complete failure here due to not being prioritized, and driving anywhere is a pain in the ass with drivers from all over just winging it on congested streets. Don't even get me started on overpriced tolls that have become the only reasonable way to travel 30min+
Texas is not ok.
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Unfortunately there are only a few cities where this is a reasonable ask in the United States, and none I know of are in Texas. Most are in colder parts of the country.
The Texas state government's path forward here is to do what they can to pedestrianize and densify their cities, but that's a long term project.
The Texas state government’s path forward here is to do what they can to pedestrianize and densify their cities, but that’s a long term project.
I know you probably didn't mean it as them actually doing it, but good lord, that statement made me laugh. The governments in texas are so focused on bullshit that increases the problem. A friend just sent me an article his city put out with the headline "YY city is XX% developed, with plans to finish it out by year 20ZZ!" Their "finish it out" means removing 95% of the remaining greenspace and paving it with concrete businesses that have just enough plants to be aesthetically pleasing when the landscaper crew cuts it.
Shit, texas is literally trying to make "one more lane!" a constant thing. When I had to drive through any of their big cities, it's just a massive construction sprawl, because as soon as they finish one section's extra lane, they start on the next section.
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Texas is what happens when conservatives have unchecked power to govern. People governing on complex issues like climate science based on nothing but “gut instincts”
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Is it even possible to get around USA without cars? There's not even proper paths everywhere for pedestrians.
In certain cities yes, but not many places.
You can pretty easily do it in lots of large cities. Here in Seattle it's not hard at all going North-South with public transit. East-West is another story...
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I used to live in a very car dependent city and now I'm somewhere that I can easily walk or bike anywhere I need and get there within 15 minutes and I am very grateful for that. Our biking and public transport infrastructure keeps getting improvements, too, which is awesome.
If they want people to use their cars less they need to start making that an actual option. This is not on the individuals but the government.
People are pretty predictable ultimately, we take the path of least resistance most of the time. If it's quicker or cheaper or easier to do something one way then we'll do it that way.
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I'm sure my boss will understand that I can't make him a dollar today because Texas said not to drive.
I have nothing in walking distance. Not even a convenience store.
So you could ask me to not take a road trip or to reduce the number of trips I take in my car today, but avoiding the car entirely isn't physically possible.
I'm pretty sure that's all originally by design.
It’s ok Abbott will reassure us it’s all nonsense and defund anything environmental before they can do anymore damage to the god fearing Texan minds that depend on his leadership.
Oh! They're building more public transportation?
Weren't they supposed to use horses in Texas anyway? When did they switch?
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What kind of liberal bullshit is this, asking us PROUD AMERICANS to stop using OUR FREEDOM CARS for some bullshit liberal environmental WOKEISM?!
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Rules for thee but not for me.
In Texas?
You know God damn well the response to this is going to be everybody getting in their 12 valve Cummins diesel trucks and cranking the fuel pumps up to the point where they "roll coal" sitting at stoplights.
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A small personal sacrifice for the common good? Sounds like commie talk to me.
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