Comment on Cardiff is set to become the first city in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs

Bassman27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Vaya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People need to get involved. That’s how change happens.

  If you are not feeling some pain, you aren’t doing anything useful.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I like the message of this, whilst feeling that it puts a lot of pressure on the end users to be informed of their actions to better society, when it really should be up to our elected leaders to enact these. It also minimizes the impact of large corps who have far more moving power than the vast lot of us combined.

    Not to say that grassroots community action cannot bubble up to move a needle.

    I tend to follow your ethos, but not because I think it will make a change in soceity, but more to help myself feel better. If there is a God, they might see that I at least tried a little in this life.

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  • MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just slammed my balls in the rear door of my Range Rover a couple of times. Am I good now?

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• WALLACE@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes but I’d say only for new cars, seems a bit unfair to people who bought their cars a couple of years before the charge is introduced. Do they really want to pressure those people to go and buy another car? (more environmentally damaging than keeping what they have).

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  • Bassman27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s plenty of smaller second hand cars on the market. You want the privilege of having a bigger car you should pay for it regardless of when you bought it. We’re all inconvenienced by their need to have a large car for their own “safety” or convenience so I won’t feel sorry for them when they’re charged more.

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