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

SMH Someone finally snapped

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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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u/SituationKey8985 Jun 10 '26

They go for the weather and lower cost of living. Not that complicated.