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Imagine a world where instead of giant SUVs clogging up billion-dollar road projects, we had park-and-rides and biking infrastructure. No more obesity epidemic
by honkycat 2y ago
Imagine a world where instead of giant SUVs clogging up billion-dollar road projects, we had park-and-rides and biking infrastructure.
No more obesity epidemic. Cleaner cities. Cheaper cities! Less micro-particles from tires filling our waterways. Less traffic, things that actually need to be transported by cars can get where they are going faster.
But then how do the road construction firms and automobile manufacturers make their bread?
- komali2 2y agoForget the park and ride, a metro system with bike parking! Living in Taipei has been a dream. Take the metro somewhere, grab a ubike to complete your journey. Feeling fat after a massive hot pot dinner? Grab a ubike and bike home. Now we just need to pressure the city to build actually bike infrastructure on the road...
- poochkoishi728 2y agoObesity comes from being lazy and eating lots, the impact of bikes on obesity would be equivalent to the rolling friction of a fat person rolling down a hill
- riehwvfbk 2y agoOverweight - sure. Obesity - mostly due to psychological issues, not laziness.
- honkycat 2y agoIt's due to inactivity, look it up. Or as WHO puts it: "Overweight and obesity result from an imbalance of energy intake (diet) and energy expenditure (physical activity)."
- fire_lake 2y agoBut what you eat and what you do are massively influenced by your environment. Rare person who can resist the bombardment of ads from the junk food industry.
- watwut 2y agoI have seen too many overweight people do too much useful work to believe that. It is not like your time in gym or being obsessed over diet would be useful to anyone else. They are you having hobbies, to large extend. An overweight person spending that time actively engaged with kids or on the job work more, by definition.
- fulafel 2y agoThe future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed, like William Gibson said.
- thefz 2y ago> Imagine a world where instead of giant SUVs clogging up billion-dollar road projects, we had park-and-rides and biking infrastructure. Ever heard of Europe?
- fransje26 2y ago> Ever heard of Europe? Still too many SUVs here for my taste. I think the optimal number of SUVs that should be allowed on the road should be exactly 0. For safety reasons, efficiency reasons, and ecological reasons..