When I was in elementary school, the cafeteria switched to disposable plastic trays because the paper ones hurt trees. Stupid, I know… but are today’s initiatives any better?

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    1 year ago

    Or drive electric, and minimise your meat consumption - this is much more feasible.

    I don’t drive and live in one of the cities with the best public transportation in the world, but am still looking to get a car because public transport is still terrible. E.g. if you need to pick up or return something, or to take one of my friends to work who works outside the city and at night.

    A car is required to live freely, otherwise you’re just trapped in cities.

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      1 year ago

      What we need is easily accessible rental cars for when we really need them. Private cars and jets should never have been a thing…

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        Maybe with self-driving cars it’ll be more doable as the cars can drive themselves to-and-from their hubs and charging point, etc.

        But we’re still a while away from that being widely achievable.

        In Europe the roads and parking are nightmare in most places, so I’m not really a huge fan of it, but it’s really the only option for freedom for the foreseeable future.

        Sadly the likeliest outcome will just be governments continuing to make it more and more expensive to get a licence, own and insure a car, drive in cities or on motorways, etc. until it becomes the reserve of the wealthy again, just like they’re steadily doing with air fares too (increasing air fuel duty whilst exempting private jets). So the rich can drive their SUVs and private jets whilst the working class are trapped in overcrowded cities, in their tiny pod apartments eating bugs all in the name of the environment.