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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
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this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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Cool. What about all those people who live within 5km of where they need to go, and are generally alone in the car.
Just because it doesn’t apply to you in particular doesn’t mean you can’t support and champion a cause that would help in the grand scheme of things.
The comment I replied to implied that if people in Montreal can do it, why can't I? I was merely addressing the implied accusation.
Besides, if you want a champion the guy making $40k/year isn't it.
The billionaires got a lot of money to spend on transit and infrastructure and densification, but everytime this shit comes up somehow the guy who barely clears the fuckin poverty line is the one who has be a champion.
Why not? Once regular people do environmentally friendly things, we've essentially won, because that means the environmentally friendly things is the most reasonable and cost effective things. As in, we've normalized the desired behavior.
Getting a billionaire to change isn't going to work, that's like trying to push a goat in the direction you want them to go. That hasn't worked in the past, and it's not going to start now.
Focus on where the efforts are most likely to actually have an impact. We should be improving mass transit, pushing cars outside of cities, and encouraging cycling. That will cut road maintenance costs, drastically reduce traffic, and improve the health of the average person. Let billionaires do what they want, let's make cities something people want to live in. That starts by focusing on the guy that makes $40k/year and making sure he can get to work and back efficiently.