I am now fully jokerified
I have thought this so many times over the last few years :jokerfication:
Man loses last additional bit of non-Jokerfied mind he didn't realize he still had.
To save the climate we will cover countless amounts of lands with asphalt.
Yeah but it'll be eco asphalt!
Transportation departments in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming asked the Transportation Department to make lower-emissions construction techniques eligible for the funds, according to a federal filing. The Federal Highway Administration guidance said such projects may be eligible, citing “sustainable pavements technologies that reduce embodied carbon during the manufacture and/or construction of highway projects.” States would have to demonstrate that such materials lead to “substantial reductions” in carbon emissions compared with “typical pavement-related practices.”
Meanwhile:
city residents worldwide need to choose modes like walking, biking and transit for at least 40 percent of the miles they travel by 2030 in order to prevent global heating from exceeding the 1.5°-degree (Celsius) threshold
:agony-immense:
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/11/12/report-climate-goals-impossible-unless-sustainable-transport-claims-40-percent-of-mode-share/
Climate change is not a matter of personal individual moral failings! jfc I hate these articles so fucking much.
Yeah but I think the intent is to show the massive mode shift that is needed through policy changes, that our govt is simply unwilling to do
Oh yeah sure, but it's not people's fault for not biking/walking/taking public transport when the infrastructure doesn't exist to support that.
:biden-troll: YOU NEED TO MAKE MAJOR CHANGES TO AVERT CATASTROPHE
:proletariat: WILL YOU HELP?
:biden-fall:
walking, biking and transit
THEN BUILD THE STUFF TO LET ME DO IT I HATE DRIVING AAAAAA :agony-acid:
Come on bro it's just one more lane, I swear this is the last one, traffic will totally clear up it'll be cool
It’s been working so well in houston. 20 lanes why not :so-true:
:frothingfash:: I'd rather take 2 hours to commute ten miles than live without my treat on wheels!
Not quite i think but there are parts of i10 that are like 5 lanes on either side, plus 2 hov lanes and 2 feeder/frontage lanes on either side so together that’s like 16Just kidding, from wiki: This section was widened in 2008 to as many as 26 total lanes
:yea:
And they're trying to spend $4B to "straighten" I-45.
But still no money for rail.
Don’t worry guys, it’s gonna be ok.
I just got a push notification from Uber saying they’re “going green 🌎 💚”
It's sad too because the land America is on happens to be very rich and beautiful.
China pours a ton of concrete I wouldn’t say they’re exactly the gold standard for emissions reduction
It's really hard to build infrastructure without using concrete.
But they're also pouring that concrete to end homelessness, expand health care, and build out next generation fossil fuel free energy production.
Meanwhile, Americans are bulldozing another row of mid-rise apartments to create room for a sixteenth lane of automotive traffic.
they’re also pouring that concrete to end homelessness
:biden-troll: That gives me an idea
Yeah I mean the emissions from the US Military alone could probably lay high speed rail for the whole country lol
Critical support etc. China's emissions are pretty terrible but they're one of the few places that seem to be taking active mitigation strategies, or at least are actively planning exits from high-carbon bootstrapping.
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not that it matters but I'd like to see the ol' Chomper walk this one back
American politics is a lot like the ol’ ball and chain :chompsky:, and by that I mean we’re in an abusive relationship.
“Some states are actually way ahead of us federally, in terms of their level of climate ambition and the creativity that they’ve brought to this and the steps they’ve taken. Others, we’re pulling along and really working to encourage them,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview Wednesday. He added that Washington will benefit from the “laboratory effect” across different states. “No one unit of government, including ours, has all the answers on how to do this most cost-effectively and efficiently.”
Nope we have no idea how to move people efficiently and effectively, no sir, let's just let the states decide what's best for themselves and I'm sure we'll sort out these climate shenanigans!
Every god damn transit system, intercity rail system, or bike lane has to have 10,000 studies done on it with 50 public hearings over ten years while the nearest highway can get widened twice in that time based on closed door decisions made by DOTs.
And this is supposed to be "the train guy"
I mean come on. COME ON. HACK THE PLANET, HACK THE MAINFRAME, END IT ALL
One half of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill is earmarked for carbon reduction strategies. :picard-excited:
One half of one percent :internet-delenda-est:
of one percent :agony-consuming:
of one percent :agony-immense:
OF ONE PERCENT :agony-limitless:
$6B is what we're sending to Ukraine so Zelensky can post "Why won't the West save us?!" TikToks.
From the article...
Instead of requiring states to meet specific emissions goals, or face consequences — an approach favored by a House majority but rejected by Senate Republicans — the new "Carbon Reduction Program" simply requires that states pursue projects and policies that reduce on-road emissions while they tap five years of funding.
Shame about that Republican majority in the senate. Boy, I sure wish that weren't the case!
This time 2020 the Democrats were saying that the GOP is a fascist terror organization hellbent on destroying democracy, throwing a violent coup & killing grandma.
2 years later the Democrats brag about how much they work together with GOP to come to bipartisan compromises across the aisle.
They are either fascist, liars, or both
I had a big oof moment when I once heard the point made that some of the worst (or at least most evil) decisions we've ever made in this country were when we had mass bipartisan support.
Things with unanimous bipartisan support in USA: Torture, war, military funding, spying on citizens, police funding, prison funding, tax cuts
Fringe loony left positions in the USA: trains, public healthcare, public education, reducing the military, not spying on citizens, closing torture sites
