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Agree with this take. It’s like yeah electric cars are technically better, but any advantage they have over combustion engines is blown away by things like public transportation, or designing walkable/cyclable cities.

Our solutions can’t just rely on swapping out for “greener” tech. We need radical changes to how we are currently living in order to ensure a livable future.

There is no future that is not radical. This gradualist, neolib (let’s make sure all the investors get a chance to divest from dirty tech before switching!) fantasy will fuck us. It’s been fucking us for a hundred years. It’s time to try literally anything else.

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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Our (Germany) cities are pretty much “walkable”, yet the public transportation sucks big sweaty monkey balls. Wherever you wanna go, plan a lot of additional time. And then it’s either

A) pay first class and enjoy SOME comfort (while still have to get TO the train in a horrible way)

Or

B) use the “normal” way and stay the whole time pressed against stinky other humans that breathe in your neck.

One way is far too expensive and the other even more.

And There’s not much to do about (except prices). How many trams, busses and trains and their tracks can you build. Yet our population gets bigger and bigger.

So fuck public transportation and fuck walkable. I wanna get to places quickly and comfortably. And that is a car. But at least we only have one, as we don’t need to work.

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- mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  With adequate public transportation, it becomes much more comfortable and convenient.
  
  My city installed a few additional bike paths, and added some more buses, and the difference is huge.
  
  I don’t even need a car except when traveling longer distances.
  
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  - Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    But there is no adequate transportation. And we just have no space for more tracks and more trams and busses. Quite the contrary, we even canceled many routes. Public transport is a nightmare here and I wouldn’t use it if I’d be paid to do it. Well and bike-paths is the same problem. No space. Biking is bad here, the absolute opposite to our neighbors the dutch. But I wouldn’t wanna use a bike anyway. I wanna get to point B quickly.
    
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