The real shame is that the cities are probably going to restructure to look more like western countries before realising they probably had the right idea the first time around.
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XM4 has button cell battery with leaf spring, so it should be easy to replace if you can get in and out without damaging it.
I watched a Youtube video about this, and yeah, induced demand affects everything, but when it affects Buses, you get more buses, and that's more efficient. When it affects Trains, you get more trains, and that's more efficient. The only time it gets less efficient is when it affects cars. The moral of the story was: It wasn't the Induced Demand, it was the Cars that were the problem.
Flamin' Galahs!
Sad thing is, if bikes were invented today, they'd be heavily regulated.
The government can actually help here with subsidies and nice loans for EVs.
I think part of the issue is that the Greens ended up dependent on Russian Gas, and this was overall a bad move.
Liberals will break the law, or create new laws, to stop the left, but think the law is enough to stop the right. The reason is that the Liberal cause is a "nice to have", but the protection of neoliberalism is a "must have".
I learnt that from Shaun's video about JK Rowling, which is eye opening. Basically, nothing bad in her universe ever changes. Slavery remains, because the slaves like it, for instance. Maintaining that status quo is a "must have" for her. Having the heroes fight for what's right is a "nice to have", despite being the main story.
I'm extremely worried about India. While, luckily, Climate is not a politicised issue, they are still spending their energy on religious bullshit instead of climate adaptations. They really need to be spending basically all the wealth they have on adaptations across regions or they are in for a massive shock.
"Opinion". Yeah, to be honest I'm kind of over reading opinions.
Wonder why conservatives are all neoliberal tho? Wonder why history in their books goes back to a certain time and no further?
I'm sorry but we have so many nukes that your answer is trivially wrong. Also don't get technical with the "well is it really destroyed" like yes, if your house is rubble, technically all the mass is still there, a bunch of the walls are still intact, you can probably even still see the floorplan, but it's no longer a house. You tell someone to draw you an "Earth", and yeah humans can very much destroy the fuck out of that.