For me it's anything involving cars or horses, also american football, and sumo, how about anything in general that intentionally harms the players health just by playing?
For me it's anything involving cars or horses, also american football, and sumo, how about anything in general that intentionally harms the players health just by playing?
Boooooooooooo :PIGPOOPBALLS:
Motorsports are unquestionably lame, but I'm not sure that's a sufficient reason to ban them. Lots of sports are lame.
Motorsports use fossil fuels, until sufficient electronic vehicles are made (ignoring the embodied carbon in making them) there isn't really a place to be burning fuel for fun like that
I don't know, I think the amount of fossil fuels used specifically for motor sports is pretty small relative to the number of people they entertain and they are not the reason we have a climate crisis.
If you want to go down the list of marginal emission luxury activities that we should eliminate, like you'll be eliminating a lot of much more basic luxuries like having access to food that can't be grown within like 1000km of you and shit before you get to like ten guys trying to go around a track as fast as possible.
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Sure, I mean I'm fine with all of that if that's what it takes, I just think that's not the best way to think about climate action. Like we don't have to bring everything to zero and end all treats, we just have to address a few major things seriously (like how we design and interconnect metropoles, renewable in the energy grid, cattle and tropical fruits in diets, home size, monitoring and reducing flights, international shipping, etc). Like if we do those things right there are a lot of basic niceties that would still be fine, like having access to a personal vehicle to go hiking on the weekend or something isn't actually that big a problem.
Transportation is a pretty tiny part of the footprint of most foods. You'll lose your red meat before your imported veggies.
My point is that it's a pretty marginal difference
My hatred of motorsports has less to do with the fossil fuels and more to do with the amount of land racetracks occupy. Shit can be worse than a golf course.
There are waaaay less tracks though. And they don't require nearly as much maintainence, yeah they need to be resurfaced every so often but it's not like golf courses
Motorsports are great imo. Simracing is very fun, and that has gotten me into watching motorsports, which are very fun to watch. If ultimately everything moved over to electric though (looks like it will in the coming years), that would be fine.
Motorsports though ultimately don't burn a significant amount of fossil fuels compared to the larger population. I don't see why it should be banned now, we should focus on changing infrastructure