People don't give up luxuries or quality of life. Everyone knows smoking kills people, its gone down with that knowledge but leveled off at millions of smokers

People don't give up luxuries or quality of life. Everyone knows smoking kills people, its gone down with that knowledge but leveled off at millions of smokers who do it for the pleasure and damn the consequences. Now that vaping is a thing that is going down again. Americans don't reduce power consumption, recycle in meaningful quantities or take shorter showers. What is making our grid more clean is more renewables (I see a new wind turbine almost everytime I drive on I-80). Recycling is still an issue but sort it from the automatically and that would fix our problem. Water starved areas would rather pipe and truck water in that let their lawns die. Public transit seems to work best in areas were being faster or more convenient is a car is the luxury. It will never happen in Omaha or any other widespread city. I can get to anywhere in this city in 20 minutes on I-80, I might spend that long waiting for Uber or Lyft. Flip it around and look at Manhattan to that same 10 or 20 miles might take more than an hour by car once you factor in parking and other hassles, the subway, buses and taxis are omnipresent (so you don't need to find your own inconveniently placed vehicle) and often faster then you don't need to park it. Traffic is just like any other human problem we will have to create hard solutions for problems that would be easy if we could all just pull back a little.