I mostly don’t agree. It encourges more car uptake, which is the worst of all outcomes… We need to move away from cars. If we did these deatination buainess Bunnings wouldn’t be able to exist anyway.
Why?
To take the poly crisis of Climate Change, Pollution, resource depletion etc serisouly we MUST move away from all cars, including Ecars.
Even the IPCC states this and we still keep ignoring them.
but also makes clear that simply replacing gasoline with batteries won’t be enough: cities must also dramatically curtail the use of automobiles and avoid “locking in” future emissions with more car-dependent infrastructure.
The report argues for increased use of electric vehicles
So looking at the report specifically for the bit I want to see and ignoring everything else:
Electric vehicles powered by low-emissions electricity offer the largest decarbonisation potential for land-based transport, on a life cycle basis (high confidence)
Shits expensive, I would love for them to put $146 million towards public transport, mainly trains that run faster than every 30 minutes and don’t take a damn hour to get to the city compared to 25 minutes by car and loads more non-road sharing bike lanes/tracks etc
But while Jay mentioned about having great cycling infrastructure in Steeeeeeeeevenage he flicks back to London with the point
But that still left me thinking, who cares if you’re in Stevenage, if everywhere has cars and there’s no traffic? What’s the issue? If cars are powered by renewables so what
This is great. Government gets their money back and big warehouses that are just sitting there soaking up the sun can be used more productively.
I mostly don’t agree. It encourges more car uptake, which is the worst of all outcomes… We need to move away from cars. If we did these deatination buainess Bunnings wouldn’t be able to exist anyway.
Why?
To take the poly crisis of Climate Change, Pollution, resource depletion etc serisouly we MUST move away from all cars, including Ecars.
Even the IPCC states this and we still keep ignoring them.
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/04/22/international-climate-report-demands-systemic-changes-to-transportation-and-urban-planning/
And a Climate Scientist
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-expert-comment-future-electric-fast.html
We’re already building GWs of new coal to make ecars
https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/110868169284217016
Here’s a better way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGy4kS9T2w
I agree and disagree
I noticed you missed this first bit 😜
So looking at the report specifically for the bit I want to see and ignoring everything else:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf
I agree with you that it would be nice for places to be more cycle friendly, mainly because:
https://www.logan.qld.gov.au/about-council/our-organisation/reports-and-publications/budget-fees-and-charges
Shits expensive, I would love for them to put $146 million towards public transport, mainly trains that run faster than every 30 minutes and don’t take a damn hour to get to the city compared to 25 minutes by car and loads more non-road sharing bike lanes/tracks etc
But while Jay mentioned about having great cycling infrastructure in Steeeeeeeeevenage he flicks back to London with the point
https://youtu.be/_DNNIB_PdaA?t=375
But that still left me thinking, who cares if you’re in Stevenage, if everywhere has cars and there’s no traffic? What’s the issue? If cars are powered by renewables so what