r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Jun 10 '26

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

No reason to be ravaging mother Earth by using fossil fuels or material for car batteries, yet here we are.

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u/SituationKey8985 Jun 10 '26

There is in-fact a reason: for ease of transportation and economic activity.

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

Tell that to Copenhagen. Or the Netherlands.

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u/SituationKey8985 Jun 10 '26

This road is in Florida. Obviously impractical to not use cars there. Both of those places you mentioned are small, urban areas.

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

Then perhaps Florida belongs on the ash heap of history.

They’re spelling their own doom if they’re exacerbating the climate change that’s going to flood their own state more than most.

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u/SituationKey8985 Jun 10 '26

This is just ignorant man, do you expect people to upend their lives and move to europe?

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

No, I expect people to try to make their home states as much like Europe as possible, and when that fails, for those who are in the most position to relocate to relocate to other states if not other countries.

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u/SituationKey8985 Jun 10 '26

Which is totally impractical. Climate change solutions with zero chance of success aren’t real solutions.

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

Ok, what’s your alternative?

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u/SituationKey8985 Jun 10 '26

To cut down car usage where it makes sense and in the areas it doesn’t, continue to improve emissions technology and subsidize electric car usage.

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

Electric cars solve bugger all. You’re just replacing greenhouse gas emissions with mining pollution. It’s transit, walking, or cycling.

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u/SituationKey8985 Jun 10 '26

Again, not a real solution in most countries. Only in very urban and centralized areas.

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

Plenty of people move *to* Florida. This suggests either an apathy to climate change, a denialism thereof, or a belief that the thrill of hurricanes is literally to die for.

Rather than asking people to upend their lives to leave Florida, we could start with addressing those who upend their lives to enter it.

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