Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Tim Walberg [R-MI7]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Agriculture which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
I remember vaguely in the late 90s when I was a kid they toted plastics as the thing to save trees and the importance of recycling it so we could use it again. Now plastic is the devil, it's the source of pollution and uses petroleum to produce it. Today it seems like the "Save the trees, use plastic, recycle" message got thrown out the window.
Now we have EVs and electric cars replacing combustible engines. We've barely touched the possible demand of all vehicles running on batteries. What will happen when most cars use batteries and we have to go to strip mining, and salt evaporation lakes just to get the lithium and other metals. Won't that type of stuff be a massive source of CO2, habitat destruction, water pollution, etc.
It seems like everywhere every message is just toting the benefits without talking about the massive consequences to come like how plastic was to save the forests.
Factorio has a plot hole, see title.
...vehicles, rather than agriculture, are the main source of urban airborne ammonia (NH3), which forms small particles that contribute to air pollution and harm human health...
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-vehicles-under-recognized-source-urban-ammonia.html
I've seen a lot of compelling arguments for why car centric planning is horrible, all of which I agree with. What I haven't seen mentioned on this sub is how car centric planning makes it so that there is hardly anywhere in a city where you don't have to hear some cry for attention booming bass system.
Here it is, about 4 pm and the constant pounding of bassholes is rattling my windows. If the U.S. wasn't built this way, and the focus on individual vehicles wasn't at the forefront, I wonder if big loud sound systems in cars would be a thing.
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Candice Miller [R-MI10]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Agriculture which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
