• orangebussycat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s time for Americans to stop spending so much time in their cars. Emissions from burning hydrocarbons are destroying the planet.

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      1 year ago

      Problem is that American cities were designed around cars. Getting anywhere on foot, especially for those who live in suburban areas, is basically impossible.

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      1 year ago

      Hard to avoid spending so much time in our cars when rent and housing prices force us to live in them.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not saying you are wrong, because you are definitely right, but I just want to put some context/scale along side this.

      28% of greenhouse gas emission comes from transportation. of that 28%, 58% of that is classified as light-medium duty vehicles (consumer vehicles). So ~16% (58% of 28%) of greenhouse emissions are from consumer daily life.

      16% is pretty big. Id love to see a dent in that. However, another 48% of the overall greenhouse emissions is energy production (25%) and industry (23%), and I think that’s another area we can probably hammer on hard, and should probably start there since its a considerably larger percentage, and the targeted base actually has funds to make changes.

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