Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.

  • @Coldgoron
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    5311 months ago

    Cars have become too much of a symbol of clout for many societies. I just wish humanity could get its shit together.

    • @Fried_out_KombiOPM
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      11 months ago

      Broke: I need a car to prove I’m not poor.

      Woke: Cars are the very things keeping us poor.

    • kaffeeringe
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      711 months ago

      Is it really something that inpresses other people? I feel cars only impress their owners and they hope other people are as impressed.

      • @[email protected]
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        811 months ago

        Cars are seen as a status symbols in a lot of places, instead of as the utilitarian things they are. Where I’m from people will see you in a better or worse light depending on what you drive, for sure. Most young people get first in debt not for college, but for the 200.000km second or third hand car imported from Germany.

        • kaffeeringe
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          611 months ago

          That is exactly, what I mean. It’s not so much about impressing other people and more about impressing themselves. They want a big car, because they think, it makes them big. Even people who care about cars don’t see every car and think how cool the owner must be.

    • @Cyberflunk
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      311 months ago

      gesticulate wildly in every direction

      There are so many things humanity needs to get it’s shit together on