> My city lacks decent and efficient transport from my home to places I go
Because cars.
Yes, cars are also the result. It’s a self-sustaining cycle that takes active intervention that appears suboptimal in short-term analysis to break out of.
Because cars.
Yes, cars are also the result. It’s a self-sustaining cycle that takes active intervention that appears suboptimal in short-term analysis to break out of.
Earlier work suggested microplastic particles could be blown across the world, but the new study is the first to quantify the effect. The scientists concentrated on fine tyre and brake dust as there is better data on how these are produced than tiny microplastics from other sources, such as plastic bottles and packaging.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/14/car-tyre...
So busses, semis, trucks and other rubber tired vehicles are also a no go.
> tires and brake pads as the source of about 550,000 tons of ocean microplastic emissions annually.5 Oct 2020
This adds other wheeled vehicles which use friction based braking into the equation.
I intentionally exaggerate the tone of my comment, but it shows a much bigger problem: All kinds of transportation has some serious impact on the environment. So just taking ICEs or cars out of the equation doesn't solve the problems magically.
We need a much bigger vision and a set of solutions which addresses these problems.
It always affects distant places, human population or not.
Again nope, much more complicated than that. My city is not flat. It's the opposite. Also bad city planning, wrong population projections and, wrong prioritization of city investments play a big role too.
We're late in building underground. Some of the most populated parts of the city has great elevation changes, so underground is not feasible, etc. etc.
> Also bad city planning, wrong population projections and, wrong prioritization of city investments play a big role too.
These are usually the consequence of a car-centric culture when it’s not racism (it’s commonly both, with the car centric culture and the racism making an alliance in the 40s and 50s).
The US destroyed many neighbourhoods and city centers to make room for cars and car infrastructures (e.g. huge through highways).