• cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not taking a side, I’m just here saying that I have no idea which one of those two options, kill the car or stop eating meat, most people would be more amenable to doing. On its face I think most would rather give up cars but I’m really not sure. Both have a better shot than guns(at least in the US)

    We’re so boned

    • Kalash@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      In many European cities you don’t even need to “give up” a car. Public transportation is faster anyway and there isn’t really a need for one in the first place.

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      1 year ago

      The worst part is neither are even remotely economically viable without massive subsidy. Just redirecting those subsidies to alternatives would solve 75% of emissions overnight.

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      1 year ago

      In both of these cases, and in fact regarding a lot of things, climate activists are going at this TOTALLY FUCKING BACKWARDS.

      OF COURSE we’re boned, we asked people to actively make their own lives worse. We should have known that was never going to happen.

      Whats the actual, practical solution? Science, same as it always has been. Lab grown meat. Electric vehicles & better urban transit. Renewable energy.

      The solution is not to make people’s lives worse but to design ways that will reduce emissions without requiring any actual sacrifice from everyday people (except higher prices). Because everyday people will not sacrifice. It will never happen.