The impossible paradox of car ownership
www.vox.com
For many working-class Americans, cars are a burden and a necessity.

Researchers calculated gas consumption from vehicles from 1949 to present and found that if American-owned vehicles were their own country, they’d be the sixth largest emitter of carbon dioxide on Earth.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes. And that is the car feedback loop:

    • ends with deadly gridlock traffic
    • destroys even more land
    • sprawls until everyone’s bankrupt
    • grows car infrastructure until everyone’s bankrupt
    • or leads to tolls everywhere until the poorest are bankrupt