I totally understand why you say this. But at the same time:
Be a politician
Do the right thing and invest billions in an amazing public transport system knowing it won’t be used properly until much later
Lose your job for wasting billions on a system nobody uses. Ensure that every other politician in the world cannot henceforth invest in public transport because “Look what happened when that other guy tried it”.
There is no Step 4
I suspect the serious answer is that we produce mucus and sneezing as a natural response to microbes, and that’s the environment within which microbes have evolved to take advantage of the mucus and sneezing
Makes total sense: who’s working for whom? Is wheat making an effort to till the soil and find fertiliser to help us grow, or is it the other way round?
People are in engrained car habits. That’s why alternatives to driving are important, but people are unlikely to switch unless we ALSO make driving less appealing
How surprising - an artificially subsidised industry wants more subsidy
“can be” is doing some heavy lifting here. I confidently predict the amount actually recycled is a fraction of one percent
It would make a lot more sense if humans could just lay some sort of egg sac which we could keep in the garage for 9 months until it hatches. I honestly don’t know why biologists and geneticists haven’t dealt with this by now
3 dB is a doubling/having of sound pressure, so 3.5 is not nothing
These things only become meaningful when you look at emissions per capita AND remember that China manufactures large amounts of the world’s stuff. All your iPhone emissions count as China’s because it was manufactured there, but they really belong to your country. Same for loads of other stuff. Careful you don’t fall for the tenor of this article, because it’s probably intended to distract you (“Why should I bother when China is really bad?”) and keep you consuming
Important to know that real-world testing shows that PHEVs are rarely plugged in and just burn oil much of the time
Except people don’t plug in their hybrids and run them on fossil fuels. Hybrids are yet another way the FF industry keeps itself going while pretending things are being fixed
People need to hire vehicles occasionally rather than buy more polluting vehicles against some rare edge case
If anyone finds themselves in this position, you should ignore everything else and just look at the ERTO size, which should be on the tyre itself. This is a standard way of measuring tyres and wheels, and is much better than the old ways
Didn’t want to walk more than the absolute minimum distance, I suspect. And/or didn’t want their precious PCP baby out of their eyesight
It also feels like a way to funnel bribes to politicians in plain sight, by paying them massive sums to rant at a camera with barely anyone watching
m’=m-45. Fixed it for you
The main alternative would be state funding, proportional to vote share. The big question would be how one establishes a new party
It suits oil companies to pretend allowing them to drill is apolitical. In reality very few things are apolitical, and oil extraction certainly isn’t