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[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

For sure for sure, not saying it's easy! Different solutions include public transports (trains, buses, etc), electric bikes + appropriate paths, electric/hydrogen vehicles, car pooling, offsetting emissions some other way, etc etc.

It's also about having towns and villages that are "self-sufficient" to a degree where you don't need to drive to the huge mall or whatever on the regular, and can just pick up the groceries for tonight's dinner on foot/bike (and yes that means having smaller supermarkets with less choice, but they're closer! It's great).

Truthfully even in the Netherlands (where I live) once you get to the countryside every household has a car as well, we do too, living in a rural area. But we can still go do our grocery shopping, and most other things on foot/bike. The car is still necessary for work and getting to some other places though.

And that's also mainly because we don't have a train station here and my work takes me to random addresses daily with heavy equipment.

Anyway another part of my point was that if you don't have a good solution for countrysides, then that shouldn't stop y'all from moving forward with solutions in city centers and suburban areas.

[-] rigo@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah for sure. I love looking around the world at different examples including you guys. I grew up in a very rural hilly area so it's just what I think of first. Completely agree that we should make the changes we can make and figure the rest out later.

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