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It's spring. High pollen season.
CDC and NHS both say 20-ish% of the population has hay fever allergies.
Pollen is big, you don't even need a particularly good mask to stop it.
Think of the tens, maybe hundreds of millions of people, in North America and Europe, who are suffering rather than wearing a mask.
"Every day, almost 3,700 people are killed globally in crashes involving cars, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, or pedestrians. More than half of those killed are pedestrians, motorcyclists, or cyclists."
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index.html
“If huge cars disappeared, the biggest losers wouldn’t be drivers but carmakers. Some of them have probably been kept alive by the outsized profits from SUVs. If we let SUVs keep fouling the planet we might as well admit there’s no sacrifice we’re willing to make for the climate.”
#TheWarOnCars #suv #suvs #climate #climatechange
https://www.ft.com/content/7612e3c0-0e10-4cfb-895d-40b2e5d083b9
"A single e-Hummer battery is roughly 350 times the size of the one in Rad Power’s popular RadRover 6 — which also costs $2,100 instead of $87,000 and up, and can use ordinary wall power instead of an expensive high-voltage charger. Put simply, mass e-bike adoption would give us hundreds of times more decarbonization for our policy dollar."
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/how-cities-can-ignite-an-e-bike-revolution#
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The War on Cars