According to Kelley Blue Book and the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, the average new car price at the beginning of 2023 is $49,388. Freedom of the open road, my ass. EVs are no solution either. The mining in itself is incredibly destructive. What we need is clean, efficient public transportation. Not being forced to own a car is freedom.
Just one more BIG THING: must do away with the RV, you know, the monster fuel guzzling home on wheels 🛞 taking you across country or perhaps just to the nearest casino!
As we’ve (USA) come out of lock down from Covid-19, we seem to be reassessing work norms and the internet options to work from home, saving commutes by whatever means. But never take away the freedom to get on the open road in vehicles operated by fossil fuels and “vacay”over long distances to reduce stress. Summertime dreams with air conditioning on full blast. Efficient public transport is just not available in vast expanses of the USA. Trains would be ideal but infrastructure needs repair and regulation apparently, and these are used primarily for freight transport! To think of walking or biking as in Europe is not possible in many places with smaller populations. To give credit where due, seems our president delighted in transport by train in Delaware or did prior to Secret Service. The “elevated” in Chicago comes to mind, mass transit in Boston alleviating the need for autos. The opposite image in my mind’s eye are the loops of concrete highway in Atlanta duplicated in many large densely populated cities. Busses 🚌
are minimally available but time tables must be considered and Americans do not wait well for the next one to come along. Must include New York where taxis are a whistle away. How will we ever pull all these options together in an oil efficient or absent plan for the coming years? Lots of creative urban planning and engineering since EVs are clearly only one piece of the puzzle. Get busy, bright young minds!
Gaining a deeper understanding of this social license building approach - and not being so focused on countering one story at a time - is so key! I loved learning about the concept from Amy Westervelt in her work - and thanks for sharing more of it, with Melissa Aronczyk's insights here, too. Hoping more folks in climate advocacy and communications, broadly, start to integrate social license understanding into their work!
According to Kelley Blue Book and the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, the average new car price at the beginning of 2023 is $49,388. Freedom of the open road, my ass. EVs are no solution either. The mining in itself is incredibly destructive. What we need is clean, efficient public transportation. Not being forced to own a car is freedom.
Just one more BIG THING: must do away with the RV, you know, the monster fuel guzzling home on wheels 🛞 taking you across country or perhaps just to the nearest casino!
As we’ve (USA) come out of lock down from Covid-19, we seem to be reassessing work norms and the internet options to work from home, saving commutes by whatever means. But never take away the freedom to get on the open road in vehicles operated by fossil fuels and “vacay”over long distances to reduce stress. Summertime dreams with air conditioning on full blast. Efficient public transport is just not available in vast expanses of the USA. Trains would be ideal but infrastructure needs repair and regulation apparently, and these are used primarily for freight transport! To think of walking or biking as in Europe is not possible in many places with smaller populations. To give credit where due, seems our president delighted in transport by train in Delaware or did prior to Secret Service. The “elevated” in Chicago comes to mind, mass transit in Boston alleviating the need for autos. The opposite image in my mind’s eye are the loops of concrete highway in Atlanta duplicated in many large densely populated cities. Busses 🚌
are minimally available but time tables must be considered and Americans do not wait well for the next one to come along. Must include New York where taxis are a whistle away. How will we ever pull all these options together in an oil efficient or absent plan for the coming years? Lots of creative urban planning and engineering since EVs are clearly only one piece of the puzzle. Get busy, bright young minds!
Gaining a deeper understanding of this social license building approach - and not being so focused on countering one story at a time - is so key! I loved learning about the concept from Amy Westervelt in her work - and thanks for sharing more of it, with Melissa Aronczyk's insights here, too. Hoping more folks in climate advocacy and communications, broadly, start to integrate social license understanding into their work!