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Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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If SUVs were a country, they'd be the sixth most polluting, and banning/regulating them wouldn't be pushing the responsibility onto consumers.
Cars are absolutely not a drop in the climate change bucket.
Industries do cause the majority of carbon emissions and we should take them down. In the meanwhile, consumerism is still what empowers them. You cannot be an ecologist and think we will keep the same wasteful lifestyle.