Reading a conversation about cars, with so many people demanding that cars don’t exist anymore because they’re bad, “boo” etc.
Chill.
Cars are necessary anywhere outside cities, aka, most of the world. And you still need them in sprawling suburbs. And when you move furniture. And when you need to water your friend’s plants up high on a hill after work. Or when you need to go to a random location for a vaccine or a skate spot.
Cars are rather essential, period. Stop arguing about this.
People forget one good thing: cars have made tremendous progress on efficiency and cleanliness!
The MPG we get today was complete science-fiction in 1983. 80? 100? I see hybrids at 133 miles per gallon! No one believed that it was even possible 30 years ago! That’s how much we got better. It deserves a smile.
That progress hasn’t curved pollution much because while our cars got far better at energy consumption, we’ve started to ship stuff around the world ten times more. Ten times more cargo ships, ten times more gross fuel being burned (a cargo ship burns the equivalent of thousands of cars’ gas tanks *every hour*), ten times more pollution. And a whole lot of planes in the air too.
Connect the dots, y’all.