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You guys think turning this country into broad swaths of suburbs and 10 lane interstates was bad or something?
Bro, this country is terminally fucking car brained, even among environmentalist groups. I've been following the CAHSR project pretty close, and the Sierra Club got the planned Los Banos (it's a bedroom community for the bay area and a lot of super commuters live there) station shitcanned early on (because "won't someone please think of the wetlands?!" But also we're totally cool with the 152 bypass project and unlimited suburban expansion into the wetlands, just not anything that will actually do anything to conserve the environment long term), and also made it so that the train had to go into a corrugated metal tunnel while travelling along highway 152 to keep from hurting the birds in the wetlands. Nevermind the four lane highway right next to the train, that's fine, cars never hurt birds, everyone knows that.
terminally fucking car brained
Remember how quickly politicians had to walk back talk of "fifteen minute cities" because America collectively shit its pants at the thought of having to walk anywhere? 
I know that was the joke but no I literally think they were afraid of the 15-minute walk. I read that only 25% of adult Americans walk for more than 10 minutes continuously in a week
My ex spouse and I used to walk places together when we were young. An hour wasn't all that uncommon. The instant they got a car "no I don't want to walk". Yeah we can walk 20min to our destination but why do that when they could spend 5min getting the car ready, 10min driving, 15min being pissed while trying to find parking, then 5min walking because that's the closest parking space to the destination. Blew my mind, years of trying to talk them into walking with me again, never worked
god finding street parking is so awful
Almost like giving every single person a 50 sqft hunk of metal (plus 25 sqft on either end) doesn't work in cities.
it sure doesn't
Fun fact, the minimum parking spot size in my city is 250 sqft, literally a tiny house
I like walking to places. I get to see people and animals
I saw that they thought people were going to be fined/arrested for leaving their 15 minute zones. This may have been more a thing in Australia though where we had distance-based travel restrictions and curfews during COVID lockdowns
i'd bike if we had infrastructure (and maintained it during the winter) but my legs would fall off if i walked that long.
getting groceries is pushing it even with leaning on the cart.
MODEST EXERCISE?! IT'S A CONSPIRACY, BUT MUH RIGHTS, AAAAAAAA
Tbh, I'm almost certain that was an astroturf by big oil, when it was noticing that people were not commuting and enjoying not commuting during the lock down.
Out of all the right-wing outrage idiocy, car dependency is the least believable to be organic.
Rent in cities, especially walkable cities is high for a reason: they’re desirable, in-demand areas. Literally too popular for their own good.
I pay out the ass in rent but really gas and upkeep would make up for the difference and then I'd have to drive and live somewhere worse.
It's a well-kept secret that lots of smaller cities are both walkable and cheaper.
car = freedom 15 minute city - > no car = no freedom
the government is creating minute cities to take away our freedom & cars. we'll be trapped in the cities which is what THEY want.
A box that you can't stand up in, that you spend 4+ hours a day in? Freedom.
Fresh air and being able to change directions in an instant and not spending a quarter of your waking hours cramped up? Basically prison.
you left out the middleman. it wasn't walking everywhere that did them in, the car funded media couldn't handle it and made a bunch of shit up about eating bugs to make it as hatable as possible
It's still a conspiracy theory where I live. I occasionally see protestors protesting it, but like, the city they're protesting in can be traversed by car in 15-30 mins lmao
Sounds like COINTELPRO ngl.
I see a glimmer of hope in Colorado at least
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/05/11/colorado-passenger-trains-rail-denver-granby/
YES LET'S FUCKING GO RIDE THE TRAIN CHOO CHOOOOOO
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Maybe the giant drop in insect biomass we were warned about 6 years ago is having consequences? Like there's a system of relationships connecting different species together? A sort of chain or web maybe? Nah, that's silly
that + bird flu is quite the nightmare
60 years ago, Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring and they banned DDT and freaking Nixon of all people established the EPA. And now it's "let 'er rip lol"
3 billion is catastrophic. Jfc
Memes aside, how many birds were killed during the 4 Pests Campaign? Because that's what caused all the starvation during the Great Leap Forward when there weren't birds to eat insects which caused huge swarms of locusts to eat all the crops.
Something similar could happen here in the US, except it will be the collapse of ecosystems due to not enough pollinators, rather than biblical plagues destroying all the grain.
I just heard of hundreds of millions of sparrows. Not sure about other species. If things collapse like that in the US....
The American species of locust was effectively driven to extinction about 100 years ago due to a combination of aggressive campaigns to exterminate them and their breeding grounds and changes in farming practices and types of crop cultivation.
It’s extinctions all the way down, baby!
The concern about bird populations though is that they're pollinators (just like honeybees). A lot of plants rely on birds for pollination. No birds = no plants = herbivores starve and die = carnivores starve and die = total ecosystem collapse. This would rapidly accelerate climate change and desertification.
Corn is wind pollinated tho so the HFCS will keep flowin' 
Further confirmation that JDPON Don is a Maoist 
:sparrows: /s
Okay, but did you think about the short term impacts to profits if we did anything about it?
killing the planet
Dunno why they bother putting out these statements, americans (who are killing the birds) do not care.
They’re too focused on vanity to ever change. They need to have their lawns mowed, pesky trees removed, and no sign of wildlife for the perfect pristine life. You can tell them all the negatives of what they’re doing and they’ll talk about property values while contributing to the insect mass extinction through pesticides.
The only time they comment on the lack of wildlife is when they notice they don't have to clear as many bugs off their windscreen as they used to. HOAs in North America are terrorist organisations
pesky trees removed
What is it about the suburbanite brain that makes them want to cut down all the trees? This is something I've never understood.
"They're messy!" boils my blood every time I hear it
Its so I personally can watch as the entire earth dies.
Maybe they figured out ecofascism already
By refusing to redistribute wealth to the plebs of honkey countrys, they throttle their birth rate to a 1.5 ish tfr and constrain CO2 rise
Poor birdies 
I get this is also bad news for us but we're hardly the victims here.
How long until some right wing nut job claims it was wind turbines' fault?
Letting Amerikkkans have any power even in their own country should be tried at the Hague for political malpractice.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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