Like I’m for reducing agriculture emissions(going vegan), I’m for increasing rail to the point flying feels absurd (and getting rid of it, mostly), and I’m for not burning fossil fuels for any reason. But the future where we just switched to electric cars abd everything else is the same? We (or our grandparents) walked past that door, carter admin or Chevy volt at the latest. Its underwater now.
The ecological cost of cars (break and tire dust in our lungs and water-thats where most of your microplastics come from) producing and moving tons of material for every 1-5 hundred pound human, black pavement that won’t let water through, and just the sheer wasted space, we can’t afford it anymore. Its not worth it.
But its not all bad! Trains are cool as fuck, and crazy efficient per joule-a filthy diesel train belching clouds of smoke is cleaner and greener than an electric car running on clean nuclear/wind power, so imagine what we could do with overhead wire/third rail?
And yeah you might have to walk a block or two to the train station, once robust transit gets put in, but you’d get your steps in, and honestly in Los Angeles most people walk at least that far to their cars anyway.
Wow you really want to fuck your car, don’t you?
Like I’m for reducing agriculture emissions(going vegan), I’m for increasing rail to the point flying feels absurd (and getting rid of it, mostly), and I’m for not burning fossil fuels for any reason. But the future where we just switched to electric cars abd everything else is the same? We (or our grandparents) walked past that door, carter admin or Chevy volt at the latest. Its underwater now.
The ecological cost of cars (break and tire dust in our lungs and water-thats where most of your microplastics come from) producing and moving tons of material for every 1-5 hundred pound human, black pavement that won’t let water through, and just the sheer wasted space, we can’t afford it anymore. Its not worth it.
But its not all bad! Trains are cool as fuck, and crazy efficient per joule-a filthy diesel train belching clouds of smoke is cleaner and greener than an electric car running on clean nuclear/wind power, so imagine what we could do with overhead wire/third rail?
And yeah you might have to walk a block or two to the train station, once robust transit gets put in, but you’d get your steps in, and honestly in Los Angeles most people walk at least that far to their cars anyway.