That's one of a list of hundreds of good reasons.

The argument doesn't have to be about car-free vs non car free. People in Montana need to have cars to do whatever one does in Montana, and In Kansas to drive around the corn or whatever (let the ignorance go for a sec) but people in DC don't need to drive huge Suburbans and other large vehicles. That, to get excesively academic, is commodity fetishism. And while riding ridiculous bikes around for a 4 mile commute is also commodity fetishism (partly) its not damaging to the environment. And while there are many other factors in global warming besides cars, it is fallacious to say that cuting down on driving when possible is not a valid solution for any given individual. I suspect that it is a hyper masculine, big d**k jack complex to be resistant to driving small ugly hybrids around in an urban environement. If this is not the case im happy to be corrected.

Alright I even PROOFREAD this submission!

OK actually, some people in an urban setting might need to drive a large ineficient (sp) vehicle, but a good portion of those who do drive them do so for style reasons. Its 3:30 AM why am I even worying about this post?

Wow, a Bay Area resident not complaining about our excellent public transit? Seriously last time I took the Muni and BART it was on convenient, on time and cheap, can't understand how people hate it so.

I rely on my bike and/or public transit for nearly 100% of my daily personal transportation needs. When it's 10 below zero, dark and snowing I ride my bike. When it's 10 below zero, dark, snowing and I have my 3 kids with me, I take the car. Sorry zealots, cars are a necessity for some people. I really, really like the sticker though.

i know that's a joke but the earth's temp rose .74 degrees celsius in the last one hundred years, this could be from a receeding ice age or some other factor but it certainly coincides with the industrial revolution. that being said the average tmep of the earth is 13 celsius so .74 degrees is about a 6 percent increase. in your body that's like having a fever of 104, if you have ever had a fever of 104 i'm sure you know its not fun. imagine the earth going through that. its a wonder things aren't worse.

Researching the history of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere in the last 400.000 years circa, a pattern has been detected regarding global temperature and CO2 concentration: while there have been temperature fluctuations, consistent with ice-ages and goings-out of ice ages (and other fluctuations), there have never been instances where the CO2 concentration has risen without the global temperature rising as well! And today, we have the greatest leap in CO2 concentration ever recorded in the last few hundred thousand years. What used to take about 5000 years, took less than a century nowadays.

Asfor the small relative increase in temperature: if the global temperature increased uniformly by a small amount, nothing much would happen. But it's not that simple: an increase in temperature indicates an increase of the total energy of the system, and we can not predict how that increase in energy will manifest itself. However, some effects are already visible: hurricanes are more frequent and more intensive. Cyclical weather patterns are disturbed and so we have no-snow periods for some areas of the alps. Or we have droughts in southern europe and australia, much more destructive than in previous decades.

Some places are heating up more quickly than just 0.74 degrees; such is Siberia, for example.There, millions of tons of methane is being liberated from the once-frozen permafrost, and houses and other constructions are "sinking", as the permafrost on which they have been built, melts away. The methane that is being liberated is itself a greenhouse gas. In fact, its greenhouse effect is a few tens of times stronger than that of CO2.

Yeah, we're pretty much ****ed. I think we've already sealed our own fate, by the time we realized the damage we were doing it was too late. I'm glad I'll probably be gone before it really gets bad, I just hope my kids don't suffer too much.

that's an awfully grim way of looking at it, but also something that should be a factor when people make the decision to have kids.

Alright, now there's a cause I can seriously get behind. People need to cool it on the procreation for a generation or two. We'll all be dead when the population bottleneck hits in 25 years. Projected population of the earth by 2050 is around 10 billion.

I'll be in Montana. Hoarding ammunition and NOS Campy parts.

yeah, more dudes(myself included) should get snipped, you can always have kids later through adoption or science if you so choose but most kids are accidental kids

Well I'm moving to montana in 2 weeks so does that mean I'm ahead of the curve?

I had to buy my Hummer because I buy a lot of groceries at once. It's just, practical.

I hope this is a joke.

Europe has the advantage that most of its cities and communities were already built dense out of necessity. I agree there's a lot we can do to minimize use of cars in our urban areas, but it's an uphill battle in most places, and there are a lot of non-urban areas in this country with no other infrastructure so it doesn't really make sense to bulid a light rail 20 miles out to where a couple of guys live.

europe is a kagillion years old they have no immediate choice

usa has the illusion of choice

I'm sure your son would appreciate that thought.

D00d, I'm lost. What does fellatio and grocery shopping have in common? Do I even want to know?

Trust me, you don't. The things I have to do for a loaf of bread...

I sometimes drive a car. I exhale carbon dioxide. I also like steak.

the only way to fight global warming:

http://web.mit.edu/timeline/images/92-roller-blades.gif

Abba and Ace of Base CD's will go up in value on ebay now.:rolleyes:

i'm the reason homophobes lash out at members of society? and i'm the reason people attack others for no reason? how could my girlfriend(i'm currently single but no bother) make second hand clothes? i do like tofu turkey, you got me there, i don't ride in critical mass, i'm against it, there's no interstate in new york city, i really don't poo more than once a day so that's not an issue and i think i own 15 pair of underwear i'm not sure how shortening my laundry cycle could make the world a better place but i'm open to suggestions....


my point is you vaguely mocked me while not actually arguing any real point, thanks for boring us.

if you read the post you would see i was saying i should get snipped, if i were to ever have any children it would have to be by accident i'm not selfless enough to be a decent parent and i have enough friends and family that are good parents that'll let me hang out with their kids when i feel like hanging out with little kids

why even respond to stuff like that soyboy
?

25 % of the pollution in Los Angeles comes from China.

Yes, because God forbid anyone have any privacy, or space to, I dunno, raise children, or, um, lemme see, GROW FOOD. Clearly, it would be better for everyone if we outlawed the internal combustion engine, and all moved to MegaTokyo, or some other 12-mile high urban leviathan where a billion people are crammed into three square miles; that surely has got to be psychologically healthier and more "sustainable" than anyone ever driving a privately owned car. I know, we'll have two cities, one for the west coast, and one for the east coast, and a constant steam of public busses running between them, departing every three minutes, powered by cow fart collected from giant solar-sail-like deployable ram scoops out on the open road.