ButtKiss

joined 7 months ago
[–] ButtKiss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

There are no solutions that involve personal car ownership. Appealing to entitlment just makes it worse, will it be inconvenient? Yes, but the only other option is the collapse of civilisation.

Here's the IPCC https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/04/22/international-climate-report-demands-systemic-changes-to-transportation-and-urban-planning/

but also makes clear that simply replacing gasoline with batteries won't be enough: cities must also dramatically curtail the use of automobiles and avoid "locking in" future emissions with more car-dependent infrastructure.


"I see no way out of revolutionary changes to how we live today .... it is too late for non-radical futures" - Professor Kevin Anderson

https://social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/110235597189756736

[–] ButtKiss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because it worked to get them where they are... So they keep doing it. Ostensibly Germany's not sending Taurus precisely because of this.

[–] ButtKiss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

I decided to move here as suggested :)