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by Thlom 2031 days ago
Can mass personal car usage ever be sustainable? Just the land use to support car usage is insane.
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djrogers 2031 days ago
The planet has enough land to support many orders of magnitude more roads than we currently use. What leads you to think this is a problem?
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rini17 2030 days ago
Not really, the US is only 3 orders of magnitude away from being 100% paved over. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070719230638A...
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pretendscholar 2031 days ago
Do you honestly think they mean that we are physically running out of room on the planet to put roads?
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supertrope 2031 days ago
In addition to the roads and parking lots land is utilized to mine raw materials for producing the machine and fuel or charge it.
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nine_k 2031 days ago
The needed concentration.
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njarboe 2031 days ago
Thus The Boring Company and lots of tunnels.
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