Comment on save the planet đ
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠agoYouâve got to invest in it before it gets good. Youâve got decades of car centric infrastructure inertia making cars the more convenient choice. All youâve got to do is invest just enough to make alternatives actually possible.
I donât know the challenges of your specific infrastructure, but there are certainly improvements that could be made
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Sure you could tweak here and there, but youâd need to turn it completely around to make it attractive to me. And then, a car is still more appealing to me. But as said, we have limited space and growing numbers of people. Itâs room to live or more trains. And trains are only used by the lower classes, so nobody actually caresâŚ
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca â¨1⊠â¨week⊠ago
Indeed, I think somethingâs got to give if weâre to have any future worth living. Probably very many things should change. Iâm a bit of an misanthrope myself, so getting used to more communal arrangements is painful.
Would you be more likely to champion a less attractive option if it was part of a larger initiative to make a better world?
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip â¨1⊠â¨week⊠ago
If it would REALLY mean a thing? Yes. I would. I already work for free in a place where abused people end up broken and alone. Also gift away money to them, anonymously. They donât even know from whence it came. Guess that counts as a âless attractiveâ option đ
But some half-assed wanna-be-feelgood thing? For some social-media-points? Naaah.
And yup, misanthrope here. And we indeed need substantial changes. We all, no matter where, most of everything is bad anyway.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
Yeah weâre on the same page. I might be a little more tolerant of imperfect or half-assed attempts at a solution is all.