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So you're supposed to lessen your relationships just because you moved away?
We live in an age where you can literally talk face to face with virtually anyone, nearly anywhere in the world on a tiny rectangle in your pocket. Yes, we can all afford to travel a little less over long distances.
Not everyone has a smartphone or webcam, you, right? My father is 73 and has neither, he doesn't like to videochat because he feels it impersonal. My mom has a smartphone but doesn't video chat with anyone. So I'm just supposed to not see my parents for a year or more because they don't want to video chat?
Yes, that's how normal people live. Or, you know, HAVE FUCKING TRAINS.
What you consider "normal" isn't exactly normal. This isn't the 1800s.
Umm you know that trains take energy to run right? The energy doesn't come out of thin air. Most trains either run off diesel fuel which is dirty as hell or they run off electric and that energy is usually from burning fossil fuels.
So your suggestion is "don't use this one method of transportation that burns fossil fuels, use this other method of transportation that takes longer and still burns fossil fuels!"
Really great argument you have there! 🤦♂️
Your American perspective is only a thin slice of the world. Don't be so conceited.
Less energy per passenger, and the energy sources available are much more diverse.
In ass-backwards places, sure. You know Brazil, that country to the south of yours, with a comparable landmass and population? More than 85% of their electricity comes from renewable sources. I guess 'murica is too much of a shithole to figure this one out.
So the implication is that you think the efficiency of a process is meaningless and the path to an outcome is unimportant (which is braindead). You may as well drop dead right now, then, since "you'll still die some day, anyway".
Planes are ubiquitous to the global north. They're not an American thing.
www.duckduckgo.com/?q=EU+railway