China’s road infrastructure is all much newer than most other developed nations. And since it was built later I imagine the materials and civil engineering undergirding them is better.

However, the bill always comes due eventually for reinforced concrete. It’s currently coming due in most of the west now from all the freeway building that happened in the 50s.

China still has a long time til they’re in the same place, and it will be interesting to see if they learned the lessons of not deferring maintenance.

I assume this increase in men being single has led to increases in male loneliness and subsequently the massive chauvinist backlash and rightward shift that’s been happening in S. Korea.

What’s needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!

As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.

Wy’east?

Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it’s still dedicated to people.

That accepts the framing that we’re designing for cars/bikes/peds. We’re not. We’re designing for people, whether they’re in a car, on a bike, etc.

In that sense it’s very much not zero-sum.

It’s only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.

Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you’ll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.

And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.

The average American commutes 20.5 miles each way to work 🙃

Shouldn’t there be gray in the picture above?

did they install it via an electric car?

Can cats have little a salami?

Damn maybe we shouldn’t be giving Israel bombs.

There will always be people who do not act with regard to the safety of others. I would rather those people be on bikes than in cars.

I’m not discussing the morality of this action in a vacuum. I’m discussing it in comparison to the same person behaving equally as unsafely in a car.

And yet had you collided, it’s very unlikely that anyone would have died.

Those three scenarios you mentioned are all only dangerous because of cars.

We won’t be abandoning the tropics. The people who live there will be. And, based on current prevailing attitudes of temperate democracies, those fleeing the uninhabitable zones will be told to simply pound sand. It will be genocide by omission.

The democracy I live under now keeps ignoring or delaying action on climate change in favor of things that are less important than the comfortable survival of our species. If it’s trying to convince me it’s worth saving it’s doing a bad job.

My ideological concerns are secondary to my ecological concerns.

China’s solar panel industry isn’t a monopoly, much like their auto industry.

The internal competition is part of the reason both are so cheap.

I’m asking you what you think would be different if China was the largest global superpower?

If this is some great fear we’re all supposed to have to the point that we’ll forestall making progress on decarbonizing then it should be easy to clearly articulate what we’re afraid of happening.