The climate is a non-issue for almost all Americans. I think your point about HSR is more important because it’s really saying that the entire country isn’t des

The climate is a non-issue for almost all Americans. I think your point about HSR is more important because it’s really saying that the entire country isn’t designed around individual people driving everywhere all the time, and that’s the problem the United States has in so many forms: housing is spread out and often intentionally bad for transit, transit and bike infrastructure is terrible because most funding was used to subsidize private car travel for most of a century, people have car parking because they’re required to pay for it anyway, etc. Gas prices going up could change that but it’d be hard on many people to the point that elections are lost.