Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germany for the first time: Around 4% of the particulate matter consists of plastic. Around two-thirds of this comes from tire abrasion.
a lot of that is equity firms, but we’re not building comblocks either so the alternative is legacy housing that’s unobtainably expensive or renting forever. Developers need to be prevented from building that shit, but people don’t have a lot of agency in housing, see tiny homes and van shit getting way more popular over the last decade.
there’s like a hundred things that need to happen all at once, very few US politicians are interested in making any of them happen, and in the meantime we might as well have electric cars instead of SUVs.
i’d love to ride my bike in the winter but the city doesn’t clear snow promptly enough or on sidewalks so i’d just die if i tried.
well, yes, again, but then also again: how do EVs change the equation here?
there’s no in the meantime. All the needed changes I assume we agree on could be done in the now, but they won’t be, and they also won’t be once you exchange every ICE car for an EV because why would you? The system can keep on trucking fine with EVs instead of ICE cars, why change?
why the hell would electric cars have anything to do with blackrock buying all the housing and landlords extracting onerous rents? they’re better cars while we have to have cars, that’s it.
the “meantime” is the time the process of reorganizing society so most people don’t need cars will take.
we don’t live in a vacuum of ignoring politics to go ride bikes to work or the grocery store in january
i don’t know what you’re arguing against. are you’re some kind of Internal combustion engine accelerationist?