* Live in a very well insulated flat in the city that isn't made of concrete
* Have meat and dairy only as a luxury item
* Use solar and wind power for your heat pump and AC
* Ride a bike or walk to work, or take electrically-powered public transport
* Use non-luxurious sea transport to go on foreign holidays
we'd be about there. But boiling today's young people for the sake of cheap gas has proven more politically feasible.
Don't have a lot of hope for this one, people are willing to tell others to change their patterns but will rarely change their own. That way, you get woke points but don't have to do anything. Plus that Tesla looks GREAT in the driveway, especially when you consider that climate change is all everyone else's fault.
There are plenty of urbanists on HN. Anecdotal, but I swear if I post something like "your free parking is just welfare for car owners" it will be upvoted most of my workday, and then downvoted as Americans come online. But I don't have hard data for this (wonder if HN has a way to pull the comment score history over time...)
For what it's worth, my Brompton looks pretty cool at my desk, too, but that's less visible.
And yeah, all new cities are garbage. Absolute dystopian nightmares of design where letting your three year old play in the street is a death sentence. Never mind that when cars were new a NYC judge decried the possibility of kids being banished from playing in the streets, which of course was perfectly normal.