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120% on board with this. why can all these woke celebrities and politicians tell me I cant buy the car i want but they pollute the equivalent to 2000 people a y
by ffggvv 4y ago
120% on board with this. why can all these woke celebrities and politicians tell me I cant buy the car i want but they pollute the equivalent to 2000 people a year each.
maybe they should be first to make a “sacrificel
- hn_version_0023 4y agoIn the past we used to make the sacrifice ourselves, by throwing such beautifully perfect people into a volcano or similar.
- stevenwoo 4y agoThe book Ministry for the Future has a melange of ideas in the plot, one of which is a world wide terrorist movement against environmental destruction that uses drones to crash every private plane with extremely rich people on one day to discourage their usage, it's sort of a variation on the Unabomber and 9/11. It seems like it would require wide ranging conspiracy that it would be infeasible, things would have to be really bad environment wise but at the same time there would be enough capital and people in the movement to support a large scale coordinated attack, there are so many ideas thrown in there that this part is not really explored that much in the book after building up the rationale behind the movement.
- suoduandao2 4y agoOr one ecoterrorist able to play a long game slips a backdoor into a widely-bought drone's software.
- andsoitis 4y ago> celebrities and politicians tell me I cant buy the car I want What are you talking about? When has someone told you you cannot buy the car you want?
- ffggvv 4y agoregulations which ban them from being made
- andsoitis 4y agoexample?
- patrick451 4y agoGo open the hood of any car made in the last 10 years. The engine bay is crammed full of doodads needed to satisfy the regulators. I want to buy a new vehicle without all that stuff, but can't because regulations prevent it from being made.
- ffggvv 4y agolook at all the new cars. if they arent fully hybrid/electric, then they are these small displacement 4 cylinder engines. The v8 has essentially died out, or is on its last leg. V6 are super rare and only for the top trim cars. (look at 3 series bmw for example.. all the way from base 3 series to m3 and what has changed over the years) In europe its alot worse than the uS. Each new car generation that comes out in the US is now losing horsepower as the manufactureres have to hit environmental regulations.