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DoomsdaysCWI've been thinking about posting this story for a few days. A timely topic! <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@breadandcircuses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jensorensen</a> The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large carsDangerous, polluting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SUVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SUVs</a> and pickups took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame.by David Zipper, April 2024"Cars, you might have noticed, have grown enormous."Low-slung station wagons are all but extinct on American roads, and even sedans have become an endangered species. (Ford, producer of the iconic Model T a century ago, no longer sells any sedans in its home market.) Bulky SUVs and pickup trucks — which have themselves steadily added pounds and inches — now comprise more than four out of every five new cars sold in the US, up from just over half in 2013, even as national household size steadily declines."The expanding size of automobiles — a phenomenon I call <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarBloat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarBloat</a> — has deepened a slew of national problems. Take <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoadSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoadSafety</a>: Unlike peer nations, the US has endured a steep rise in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrafficDeaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrafficDeaths</a>, with fatalities among <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pedestrians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pedestrians</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cyclists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyclists</a>, who are at elevated risk in a crash with a huge car, recently hitting 40-year highs. Vehicle occupants face danger as well. A 2019 study concluded that compared to a smaller vehicle, an SUV or a pickup colliding with a smaller car was 28 percent and 159 percent, respectively, more likely to kill that car’s driver."Car bloat also threatens the planet. Because heavier vehicles require more energy to move, they tend to gulp rather than sip the gasoline or electricity that powers them, increasing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenhouseGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenhouseGas</a> emissions. Extra weight also accelerates the erosion of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/roadways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#roadways</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tires</a>, straining highway maintenance budgets and releasing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/microplastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microplastics</a> that damage <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a>."Read more: <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</a>

Ruth MottramI remarked yesterday that <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cycling</a> round the city on a cold but clear + sunny day made me resent the smell of petrol + diesel engines. But the adoption of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EV</a>'s in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Norway</a> appears to have had fatal consequences on pedestrians due to weight. The statistics on US <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TrafficDeaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrafficDeaths</a> are *appalling*. This piece makes me wonder if anything can ever be done about any easy to solve problem in a polarised land.America’s obsession with big cars has fatal consequences - <a href="https://on.ft.com/3J4Rht1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://on.ft.com/3J4Rht1</a> via @FT

🎸🌃 All The City Lights 🎶🚴This is such important reporting that Jose Fermoso & <a href="https://sfba.social/@theoaklandside" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@theoaklandside</a> have done here, documenting every single car-related death in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Oakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oakland</a> last year. Every community needs this, and to look closely and ask how so many preventable can be tolerated.“The vast majority of the collisions occurred in East Oakland. And most victims were low-income people of color.”<a href="https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/18/35-oakland-lives-lost-traffic-collisions-2022/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/18/35-oakland-lives-lost-traffic-collisions-2022/</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TrafficDeaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrafficDeaths</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TrafficViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrafficViolence</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/howmanyistoomany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#howmanyistoomany</a>

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