solarpunk memes

Working from home is the best. Not everyone can do it, but those who can, should be allowed to. Return to office isn’t for us, it’s for them.

Where I live there is 0 public transport. I charge my EV with my own solar panels. So I think I am okay.

Yeah in a world where transit isnt a shit show. In my city transit will take you 2 hours to get home when a car will take 20 minutes

It's also collectivizing the solution rather than expecting us each to address the problem on an individual level that doesn't change the status quo one iota.

Bike/Electric scooter + public transport is a peak mobility, but public transport isn't even built for that :(

US public transportation is pathetic, but prior to the 1960's it was quite extensive only to be destroyed by the oil and automobile lobbyists.

It's amazing how much it takes for some to reach the conclusion that systemic change is both necessary and requires... systemic change. As in systems changing. As in greater change than your individual decision to ride an EV or ICEV or public transit. Change that would make it exponentially more intuitive for you to choose the most sustainable one of those options.

Especially if mass transit is not feasible for you, this post is not to shame you or call on you to try and do it anyways. It's a recognition that riding mass transit is not feasible or intuitive for most people, and a call to make mass transit available to more people rather than investing all that time and energy into the wild goose chase of EV adoption.

The crying indian really did a number on us.

What about electric public transit? EV buses are becoming quite popular in Korea.

My friend’s work is over an hour from his house by public transport—if public transport is working, and it’s a weekday. If it isn’t working well, if it’s late, if it’s a weekend or holiday, then it’s closer to two hours (or more).

It’s 15 minutes max by car.

And he lives in a place with good public transportation.

Until we improve how public transportation runs, so that it really is designed around how people need to get from A to B, cars are going to be the more popular choice.

That's great if public transport goes from near where you are to near where you want to be, in a reasonable time.

For me that's not the case. Anywhere I want to go takes 27 changes over at least 5 hours for a net distance of three miles; it'd be quicker to hop backwards blindfold on a bent pogo stick.