No, they still are. You can always turn a luxury into a relative need by stretching out resource intensity. I could easily make the case for commuting with rockets from the Moon to Earth and back, or for some billionaire commuting with a private jet. Doesn’t make it not a luxury.

If you hate it, protest against the car system and suburbia, and for dense urban development with public transit. There is no alternative.

Cars are luxuries.

DEBATE LEVEL 100

Capitalist media siding with fascists - Episode 981237198273

Quit the rat race, learn to be alone and to build new connections. Respect sentient beings. Read and think, learn how the world works, develop the sense that you live in a world of many, and you’re not the only one who matters.

I’ve been mentioning the Amazon aerial rivers for years, and the biotic pump: they also help cool down the climate https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/forest-modeling-misses-the-water-for-the-carbon-qa-with-antonio-nobre-anastassia-makarieva/

The entrepreneurs and other settlers destroying the Amazon now will end up [dying] in a large desert.

Isn’t there some rule about driving slower when the visibility is poor (such as at night)?

I wonder what are products with “milk” in the name are going to be in trouble.

If road safety is so important, it should also be mandatory for passengers and drivers to wear helmets.

Yes, that’s what I meant. What you describe is the monster under the mask.

PPP

fight robots with robots?

The mask fell off.

a decade sooner than expected.

✨ FTE ✨

“build it and they will come” ?

Yeah, you gotta let the small ones and the fungi deal with that. And there needs to be a lot of fibrous plant mass.

Which is why, in either case, the parents should face the consequences.

Composting will do.

Pot this to the urbanism subreddits too. People don’t understand how toxic suburban sprawl is.

According to the commission, the federal government should develop a climate resilience star rating system that potential buyers could use to identify homes at risk of climate-related damage.

!uninsurable@lemmy.world

Herders creating deserts: a tale as old as the Holocene.