• Moneo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    For a start you could get active in local politics and support zoning reform. Car dependent infrastructure is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and I am not just talking about car exhaust.

    If we want to solve climate change we need to change our way of life, and that means ditching as many cars as possible.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      I don’t disagree with you, having walkable infrastructure would be great.

      It just doesn’t really seem achievable in any meaningful way.

      A few hundred km from here a gargantuan hydrogen facility is being built - using solar to cracking hydrogen from sea water. It will take decades to build, and is a big undertaking.

      I offer the above as an example of something difficult but reasonably achievable.

      Lobbying local government to favour walkable infrastructure just doesn’t seem like a viable pathway to meaningful change in a reasonable time horizon.

      Yes I should take 15 minutes every election cycle to vote for the right person. Beyond that though my input wouldn’t be very valuable.

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      7 months ago

      what? it’s too late for that.

      we are all actually going to die. changing a zoning rule? you think that’s going to help?

      if there’s an avalanche that is seconds away from enveloping you in snow and killing you, do you suggest walking a few steps to the side? it won’t do anything. the math is too much at this point to change with recycling a can or planting a tree. the only thing that will get the world to finally believe in math is massive amounts of death

      make peace with death, it’s coming for us all