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https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi... Progress in which direction?

• ravetcofx 3y ago
  Electric Cars aren't the answer, active and public transport through making our towns and city's more distributed and decentralized
  • kjkjadksj 3y ago
    The more decentralized a place is the harder it is to offer good transit service. Some of the most famous and used american systems like chicago or nyc are hub and spoke centralized systems.
    • dontlaugh 3y ago
      Most people live in cities. Even better, only a few countries vastly over consume per capita. The solution is straightforward technically, but not politically. Westerners (and especially Americans) will balk at public reducing consumption in line with the rest of the world.
    • ravetcofx 3y ago
      Well people really seem to like the suburban model, in which case we need lower density mixed use commercial where we can have small grocers, cafes pubs, low rise offices intertwined with the suburbs, rather than the current euclidean zoning model
      • kjkjadksj 3y ago
        Honestly thats not all that different than what exists in euclidian suburbs. You just have the offices/pubs/grocers on the arterial while housing is on residential blocks just off the arterial. I’ve always been able to walk to this sort of stuff even in lower density suburbs. Maybe I haven’t lived in the worst cases of them though.
  • happytiger 3y ago
    Preach. Electric cars are not “the solution,” just a cleaner version of the old system. And this is a system that, even before climate became an awareness before it was a concern, was well on its way to creating the sixth mass extinction. We need balance with nature and natural systems and not just reduction in global warming potential. Though obviously global warming will accelerate these trends, the fellow life that keeps us all alive on this planet like honeybees and plankton is in serious trouble. So let’s keep that big picture in mind. We need higher density cities, massive changes to transportation systems to support them (beyond the personal car) in order to come back into balance with nature and the future of life on earth. Clean cars are a bridge technology to a future not an answer to what that future needs to look like.
  • 57FkMytWjyFu 3y ago
    Have you ever ridden a bus? You can't decentralize public transit. Also, do you know the impact of tearing up old cement and putting new cement somewhere else? People are cray, man... we have to make do with what we have 9 times out of 10 rather than tear it up and replace it. "Strong Towns" and the like are full of it.
    • ravetcofx 3y ago
      What on earth do you mean full of it? Improving our communities? Places are not static and unchanging, they are living and breathing that can and must change to better reflect society and ecology
      • 57FkMytWjyFu 3y ago
        Do you think concrete is recyclable?
• robocat 3y ago
  EVs are an important move but they seem to get too much airtime: Worldwide EVs can remove at most 1/6th of the CO2. EVs definitely change our manufacturing base to be more electricity friendly, and they seem to be making consumers more concientious towards reducing CO2 usage. Worldwide in 2020 (Gt = billion ton of CO2: Electricity and heat 15.09Gt Transport 8.08Gt Manufacturing and construction 6.17Gt Agriculture 5.70Gt Fugitive emissions 3.25Gt Buildings 3.00Gt Industry 2.79Gt Waste 1.56Gt Land-use change and forestry 1.40Gt Aviation and shipping 1.24Gt Other fuel combustion 0.637Gt