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Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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In a properly urbanized environment owning a car would be both unnecessary and inconvenient. We should strive to properly urbanize our living areas.
Bringing back true suburbs would be good, too. People living a half hour train journey from the city by high speed rail would mean small walkable islands could form in small towns the way they used to.
To the bike tire point, let's face it, if we replaced every car with a bicycle we would probably reduce the amount of microplastics by a massive amount because a bike tire could never contain the amount of plastic a car tire does, cars have four and weigh a lot more. It's incomparable, but you compared it so I had to point that out.
Oh ur absolutely right, bike tire pollution is probably so insignificant it doesn't matter. But that comparison was in the spirit of the original comment talking about focusing on the wrong thing and bringing up tire pollution when comparing EV to ice as if EVs aren't significantly reducing emissions. In the hunt for perfection people will sacrifice improvement. It's ok to make things better without perfecting them, as long as we are moving in the right direction.