Real estate as an investment should be outlawed, and operating a business as a government official is already dissuaded, and should also be outlawed. They make enough money.
This just isnt reality. In America, government officials can and do invest tons of money while in office, compared to officials in other countries. And also in America, government officials take tons of money from bribes, compared to officials in other countries. The way it actually works is government officials take all the money they can get away with. They take their big salary, they take their investment income, and even then they are not dissuaded in the slightest from taking bribes, its still more money for them. The limiting factor is what they can get away with. So you crack down on what they can legally acquire, you scrutinize their income and spending, you prosecute violations. Their salaries are plenty to live comfortably already.
the forest is personal vehicles make up the single largest source of emissions in the US, and SUV’s are by far the most sold new vehicles currently making up the majority of that.
that gross overkill, the tons of steel and dozens of gallons of gasoline you’re spewing co2 to lug around every single day to travel 20 miles is where our emissions come from. Because once every several months you might want to travel somewhere further and you dont want to have to wait around a half hour to charge
Im just not oblivious to whats going on. The US is the second largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, and with more than double the contribution per capita of the number one spot. Transportation is the highest emitting sector in the US, and personal vehicles make up the largest chunk of those emissions. The US has also had a staggering upward trend of SUV and pickup sales making up the bulk of those emissions.
You’ve got a flagrant disregard for the consequences of your horrible choices.
I dont have a benefit of the doubt big enough to give to people for driving these big ass SUV’s. they aint aliens living on another planet from the other countries of the world with citizens that do fine without SUV’s, they can manage.
Yeah living in rural mississippi i know folks like that. They dont wanna bring 5 kids to the store, thats a nightmare. Generally a spouse or oldest kid is watching the kids, or youre goin while theyre at school. Going to work is the bigger issue.
How about, dont have 5 kids, dont live 20 miles from the nearest store, all of these were also personal choices. How about the large majority of people dont have 5 kids and live 20 miles from a store?
Thats not priority, cars dont have a more difficult time driving in wider lanes or parking in bigger spots. None of this is any excuse for your choice to buy a big ass SUV.
yes, our infrastructure does prioritize dangerous high speed motor vehicles. Im fully behind any efforts to build less car-centric infrastructure. But right now, that is something out of the average person’s hands, they do need a motor vehicle to function in society today so I cant criticize them for that. But the trend of bigger SUVs and trucks is absolutely in the average person’s hands.
This is just how capitalism works. Society’s resources are divied up based on capital. But capital is one of those resources. So it feedback loops into concentrating more and more resources into fewer and fewer hands. And elon is the poster child for just how incompetent you can be and it not matter.
This is not a good thing. Even in NYC, where the MTA is a massive chunk of money, we have one of the slowest bus systems in the world. That’s through no fault of the busses, mind, this is the cars fault. And, kinda Uber’s fault. The traffic is so bad, even where busses have their own lanes, the traffic slows that shit down like crazy.
Im with you that cars are the problem, thats why im defending this proposal for more bus service. Also in the same boat of venture capitalist tech companies are all those bike sharing businesses that popped up over the years. I still see them as positive, they’ve become integrated into many european pedestrian friendly cities id like for American cities to imitate.
Biden accuses Trump of 'coming for your health care' in new campaign ad (www.npr.org)
Justice Alito sold Bud Light stock amidst anti-trans boycott effort (www.lawdork.com)
Little things you can do to save the environment (jlai.lu)
Biden Camp Has a Field Day With Wobbly Trump at Podium (www.thedailybeast.com)
We may clown on him a lot but it's genuinely quite dystopian how much power Elon Musk has. (lemmy.world)
Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route (qz.com)
Those Silicon Valley geniuses have done it again!...