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Is wanting to drive 3-ton SUVs everywhere something inherent to those humans or do you think there are other circumstances encouraging that? And do you think th
by hnbad 4y ago
Is wanting to drive 3-ton SUVs everywhere something inherent to those humans or do you think there are other circumstances encouraging that? And do you think those circumstances could be changed?
Sometimes I get the impression that despite all the futurism talk most tech people's solution to a trash fire is to say nothing can be done about it and just go back to the line of people throwing more trash into the fire.
- midoridensha 4y agoNothing can be done about the trash fire when everyone else actually likes the trash fire. One person can't change the world (not when everyone else is opposed to him). Sure, you can blame the 3-ton SUV proliferation on the car-centric society Americans have created for themselves, but that isn't going to change anytime soon, unless Americans are forced to change it somehow. Sure, a lot of Americans complain about it, some of them even try to do something about it, but it isn't enough, because most other Americans actually like it that way and work against their efforts. Even the ones who complain mostly don't understand that it's a product of their own choices and how much they're contributing to the problem personally.