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US highway system accidentally kills over 40k people a year.
by morninglight 2y ago
US highway system accidentally kills over 40k people a year.
- NoPicklez 2y agoTrue, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about deaths of other species on the planet of which birds are completely without fault.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoSure it does. Or it should, anyway. Unfortunately the internet has spawned a couple generations of individuals that will gleefully take any form of bait that's laid in front of them and now here we are.
- malfist 2y agoWe can care about more than one thing at a time. We can be concerned about traffic deaths and about bird fatalities in a solar thermal plant
- forgetfreeman 2y agoDemonstrably untrue. "We" make performative mutterings online while taking literally no concrete action at a personal or professional level to advance solutions to any of the myriad things we claim to care about. Conclusion: what people actually care about is online optics.
- NoPicklez 2y agoWe doesn't always mean "me" it can mean others. We are allowed to talk about concepts, topics and news worthy articles and not take any action to change it. Conversation around topics isn't limited only to those that advance solutions to such things. I never claimed to care enough about the article to take any personal or professional level of interest to change the outcome. I am simply here for discussion on the article, not to change those outcomes and I am sure neither are you.
- NoPicklez 2y agoWell no, the world is large enough that we can focus on multiple problems at a time no matter the size. With your logic, the 40k road deaths aren't important for discussion either because 700k American's die of heart disease each year. But hey, let's not allow people to have other conservation efforts.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoNah. It's big enough for individuals to perform the online ritual of Good Think, but I'm not seeing any progress or even credible solutions being worked towards. Wake me when the processed food and agricultural conglomerate megacorps have all gone bankrupt from concerted, successful, consumer advocacy and I'll start taking these claims seriously. Y'all can't even be assed to stop feeding Amazon's bottom line long enough for consumer retail to stabilize so miss me with claims of serious conservation efforts. Odds are you haven't even met a single individual in your lifetime who'd willingly make the kind of lifestyle changes that that would actually require.