I know what you’re saying but people in the US, in general, have a significant capability to move compared to a vast swathe of the planet, and also these that have the choice are on the whole the ones doing the damage, and could choose not to.
The futility of the Prius and the end of the world as we know it
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If only there were someone in this thread trying to make a case for less waste!
You've been here and seen how spread out things are. Greyhound and Amtrak ain't doing it. In so much of the place, if you want a job, you need a car.
Some of the biggest traditional opponents of workable public transportation are the usual suspects. We should have just nationalized GMC/Chevy in 2008
Oh really?
Orrrr, you could have invested more in those things and knowing the size of your country and population, planned things collectively a bit better.
Anyway, what is passed is passed. The only logical thing to do is to look that history in the face and do better today and the next day.
I’d say that it’s pretty true.
I was recently looking for real estate for my mom. she had included farms in the search. any operating farm around here was at a minimum $2 million. Now I'm no expert, but I don't think the average person has access to that kind of money without borrowing it.
Also, what does a combine harvester cost? what's the annual cost for fertilizer/pest control for the average farm?
like I said, I'm no expert, but it seems to me the average family farm runs on debt. I'm not saying they can't make a living, but rather I'm bemoaning the fact that bankers get to profit from it.
A Carbon Consumption Comparison of Rural and Urban Lifestyles
Sustainable consumption has been addressed from different perspectives in numerous studies. Recently, urban structure-related lifestyle issues have gained more emphasis in the research as cities search for effective strategies to reduce their 80% share of the global carbon emissions. However...
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You misunderstood me: I hate all people equally and find that everybody should stop reproducing.
Speaking of facist: everything you do not agree with is BS and your lifestyle choices are the only ones that are acceptable? Let me think, who else had that philosophy....mmh....
Penalizing cities in that comparison because their inhabitants make more isn't a fair comparison of the locales, per se.A Carbon Consumption Comparison of Rural and Urban Lifestyles
Sustainable consumption has been addressed from different perspectives in numerous studies. Recently, urban structure-related lifestyle issues have gained more emphasis in the research as cities search for effective strategies to reduce their 80% share of the global carbon emissions. However...
I think we're talking about different things as 'rural'. Rural to a lot of people doesn't just mean "farming"
I live in a pretty rural area that has nothing to do with livestock or food production......and I gotta drive to get underwear (or even my mail for that matter)
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For most of Europe and certainly the US, the carbon footprint goes (high to low) suburban, rural, urban, metro. That study holds with part of the trend that wealth does indeed have a strong positive correlation to carbon footprint.A Carbon Consumption Comparison of Rural and Urban Lifestyles
Sustainable consumption has been addressed from different perspectives in numerous studies. Recently, urban structure-related lifestyle issues have gained more emphasis in the research as cities search for effective strategies to reduce their 80% share of the global carbon emissions. However...
$2 million? That’s cheap. But keep in mind that it would be the same example of buying an operating business of any sort. There aren’t too many businesses for sale for 100k.
Most farming operations own some of their land and will pay rent or share crop lease the rest. That is the point you bring up, it’s too damn expensive to buy land outright. If you were to go buy a brand new combine with heads you would spend well over a million, however they are a very rapidly depreciating asset. The used market is flooded with machines that are 10-20 years old with plenty of life left for 30-40,000.
It is very hard to say what an average farms chemical cost is, as each farm does it differently. Most farms do not run on debt, yes we all have operating loans, but they are paid off each year. But a quick brows through the auctions it’s easy to find a farm that was operating on debt.
What I am trying to get at is that modern “industrial” farming is the way it needs to shift. My grandpa used to molbord plow (where you roll the soil over) everything. He would then cultivate the crop multiple times. All of this requires a shit load of fossil fuel to do. What he did was also know as organic. Doing it the “old” way is horribly inefficient and costly to the earth.
My grandmother in the US died this fall. My mom and her brothers were eager to sell the property/place they grew up for some reason. They listed it and took the first offer, $265k. 30 acres, a few old wooden smallish wooden livestock barns and a garage, old but workable farmhouse, oliver tractor 1940, etc. Mostly flat with a small roll/hill across the width, a couple acres of forest and a stream in it.
Had my wife not been dying the week they wanted to sell it, I probably would have bought it.
This is northern michigan btw, lower peninsula, western side.
If I had to guess from what I’d seen prior to covid, $2million would get you a lot in quebec.
I was looking for property in a 1 hour radius from Ottawa. Ontario or Quebec. Anything that you describe was going for $500-$700k. A real, functioning farm would go for at least $2M.
yeah, that sounds like what I was seeing.
Wait, you wife died?
So sorry and condolences to you and your family. We had just landed in the US on vacation when you posted so I missed the post.
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Man blows up his Tesla rather than paying $22K to repair it - CNN Video
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Where's week with the nips when you need them. I think that's the third it fourth time that's been posted...
Hyundai stops engine development and reassigns engineers to EVs
Yet more proof that the internal combustion engine is on borrowed time.
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Ford will build 150,000 F-150 Lightnings per year due to demand
The news comes after last month's decision to triple Mustang Mach-E production.
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Damnit, I was interested in one of these, but they had to go back to the fucking Avalanche for stylistic clues.
FAIL.
the mid gate configuration is pretty cool, though.
FAIL.
the mid gate configuration is pretty cool, though.
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Not sure even that could help that abomination...
The mid gate actually does seem to be a fair option to make it more useful, though.With a bed that is uselessly short.
I mean it's ugly as sin and won't ship for a year+ and all. But they learned from the Avalanche and Envoy XUV and the like.
Sure. I'm sure people will be dropping that "gate" in order to get a full yard of mulch loaded.
Gorilla tape.With a bed that is uselessly short.
I always drove really short short bed pickups (hilux, ford ranger, et al)With a bed that is uselessly short.
Never felt they were that short.
Dirt bikes? load them up with the tailgate down. Bicycles? Tie them down solid with one tire on top of the tailgage.
4x2s? Just shove them on top of the cab.
Whats something you cant load on them? most short short beds can even take a pallet.
Speaking of short bed pick up trucks and bike hauling: https://bikerumor.com/patent-patrol-rivian-etruck-to-integrate-a-bike-rack-directly-into-the-tailgate/
I couldnt find a better picture, but this is how I tie down a bike on a short bed truck.
One strap from each grip to the bed floor, compressing the suspension about 1 inch.
Rear wheel on the edge of the tailgate and side of bed, one strap (or inner tube) to wrap it into a hook on the side.
Bike is solid, 50mph on dirt roads and 4 wheel drift solid.
One strap from each grip to the bed floor, compressing the suspension about 1 inch.
Rear wheel on the edge of the tailgate and side of bed, one strap (or inner tube) to wrap it into a hook on the side.
Bike is solid, 50mph on dirt roads and 4 wheel drift solid.
bendover when you need a battery change in your VOLT
The E-bike Is a Monstrosity
Neither bicycle nor motorbike, the two-wheeler’s future demands an identity of its own.
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