ProfT @ProfT@social.cleverlibre.org

Climate change is due to our cumulative emissions, not just our emissions today.

While rich countries have started decreasing emissions in recent decades, rich country emissions are still responsible for a substantial majority of the 1.2C warming to-date https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-historically-responsible-for-climate-change/

“With the average price of a new electric vehicle climbing to over sixty thousand dollars, might e-bikes be a more affordable solution to ditching gas powered cars?”

Not for everyone, but for many, obviously.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/02/1146543157/e-bikes-could-be-a-more-affordable-way-to-reduce-emissions

#EBikes #ElectricBikes #bikes #cities #EV #ElectricVehicles #transportation #cars

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@garry

How do you make a thread on Mastodon?

Pretty much the same way as on Twitter, with one difference. You compose the first post, publish it, then reply to it, then reply to it again, and so on. But there's one difference. If the first post is Public, you can make all the others Unlisted. This way, people can follow the thread by clicking on the first post, but their timeline isn't clogged up with all of the other posts.

#FediTip #help

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@jeffgilchrist

#twittermigration

There's a housing crisis in many cities. But cars can park free. Why not claim public street-space for those who need it? If you disguise your shelter as a polluting, duly-licensed private vehicle, like artist Michael Rakowitz did...
...the authorities should be fine with it.

More on this thought-provoking art project here:

http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/plot-proposition-i

It wasn’t an accident. Cities and suburbs that prioritized cars over people, and designed exercise and activity out of daily life, were deliberately planned and built.

The better cities that are the solution will need to be deliberately planned and built too.

#HealthyCities #urbanism #cities #design #cars #transportation #PublicHealth #obesity

In 2024, Paris will ban non-essential vehicle thru-traffic from its city center. The plan is expected to cut around half of daily car journeys thru the core. Residents, public transit, emergency vehicles, & people with disabilities will find it EASIER to move. Via @citylab
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-18/paris-is-banning-traffic-crossing-the-city-center-from-2024

#Paris #cities #CarFree #urbanism #cars #city

The best way to find every AA battery in your home is to need a pair of AAAs.

“If the general public doesn’t understand science and technology, then who is making all of the decisions about science and technology that are going to determine what kind of future our children live in, some members of congress? There are only a handful who have any background in science at all, and some of them don’t even want to know about it.” — Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan passed away #OTD in 1996. In his final interviews he left us with two messages that are even more relevant today: one emphasizing the importance of a science literate public, the other a warning about how hard it is to extract ourselves when we’ve been conned.

Here’s the thing — If you HAVE to drive, or even just WANT to drive, it’s in your best interest for public transit, walking & biking to be as attractive as possible to EVERYONE else. It means everyone else can take up a lot less space to move.

If everybody drives, nobody moves.

#cities #mobility #cars #bikes #transit #urbanism #transportation #cityplanning

Never forget, when you’re being pressured to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across fundamentally unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging, crocodile-filled river.

#urbanism #cities #streets #streetsforpeople #urbanplanning #transportation #bikes #walking

7 years ago, while trying to get approval to operate in cities all over the world, #Uber insisted that it would actually reduce #traffic. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber & Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic, and now admit they actually increase congestion.

So much for “making cities better.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ride-hail-utopia-that-got-stuck-in-traffic-11581742802 #Cities #transportation #urbanism #cars #ridehailing #ridesharing

Funny how if billionaires leave b/c Govt raises billionaire taxes, it’s Govt’s fault—but as teachers leave because Govt won’t raise teacher salaries, it’s the teachers fault.🤔

Protecting billionaires & exploiting teachers in poverty is class warfare against working people.