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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
(www.euronews.com)
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It's an and not an or type of situation. Stop clinging to your car like a baby to its pacifier.
Weird personal attack. How do you know I even drive?
Relax weirdo
During COVID, global use of cars dropped by at least 50%. Total global emissions dropped 5-10%. The largest container ships create more emissions annually than every car on the planet. And I'm pretty sure that that's per ship, not combined.
67% of emissions are caused by 100 companies. The top 1% of people create more than the bottom 50% of the planet.
Individual responsibility was created as a propaganda tool to allow companies to continue their environmentally destructive habits by passing the blame for industrial waste being dumped in forests on people not recycling their styrofoam burger packaging. The same way that fatal pedestrian accidents with cars was passed onto "jaywalkers" by the auto industry. Just like this article is doing.
Stop defending billionaires.