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US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’
(www.theguardian.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
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I also suspect a big incentive for keeping car infrastructure ona federal level is roads and car manufacturing are just manufacturing supply chains and logistica that can be switched to weapons manufacturing.
The largest car manufacturers became the behemoths they are due to WWII. After the war was over it seemed good to keep the jobs , skilled labor and factories going.
Highways were also specifically built for military maneuvering.
That said, public transport is way more efficient and makes communities safer, happier and more economically productive. I say we can have both. And the military will be less necessary if consumption is scaled back. But then the billionaires will have to pay more taxes because poor people wont be spending their retirement investments on cars so they can be more employable.
Blargh.