wut
no, it's this
There's only one door, it opens from the front, it's gorgeous. I just wish the door opened upward, instead of sideways.
A side-effect? No. You're just describing climate-safe housing being more valuable. It's always been more valuable.
In a functional market system, higher rents will result in more housing construction in those areas. I'm not delusional enough to think that the housing market is functional, but that's a can of worms that will exist regardless of the climate problems or not.
Or to rephrase a bit: yes, if people all try to move to more climate-safe areas, then we'll need to build more housing in the climate-safe areas for them to move into. Obviously.
Depending on your definition of "possible":
Point 2 and 3 would require major political buy-in (and they're also sort of the same step anyway), which strains the definition of possible. But it's quite financially feasible.
They’re $15k because the government is paying for the rest of the car, they control the lithium, they don’t give a shit about environmental regulations, and they use slave labor to produce these materials and cars.
Hey, maybe it's because:
The industry experts have done teardowns of chinese EVs, and concluded shortcutting and labor abuse alone can't explain the low pricepoint. As shitty as the CCP is, if we don't recognize that China is ahead on EVs then they'll eat our lunch. EU/US tariffs on Chinese EVs won't stop them, because they're selling to the entire world, not just the EU/US. It'll be Harley Davidson all over again (who received protectionist tariffs against japanese motorcycles until Harley Davidson could "catch up" on affordability - and the rest is history).
Even if Chinese labor standards were the problem (and people don't mention that US/EU cars have plenty of Chinese components, made by Chinese workers with Chinese wages - Ford, Tesla etc have ), the result of the tariffs is that they're setting up factories in Mexico (just like Ford/etc) where they'll be bound by the same labor standards as everyone else. And they're still undercutting everyone.
Some places are being hit harder than others. All else being equal, people should move to the places being hit the least.
There are salt flats and salt mines, which are potentially cheaper than desalination (they're literally just digging up the ground and putting it into a truck), but desalination also has a huge excess of salt that ends up being dumped into the ocean; more sodium demand would be good for the environment.
I can eat from whichever dumpster I choose, thank you very much.
I think the people talking about climate denial are missing the real star attraction here - the LA fire dept competence denial is the important thing to see. See, the point of denial isn't to actually convince people that climate change isn't happening, it's to weaken the evidence down to something ignorable if you want to ignore it.
The Unwoke Right make some bullshit claims about LA firefighters being defunded and incompetent due to DEI blah blah, and the Left debunks those claims but most people who see the Right's claims will also see the debunking of all the claims they saw, so there's a plausible possible alternative explanation that people can assume explains the fires if they want to. They can tell themselves "the fires aren't getting worse, the LAFD is just getting less competent, those people aren't dying from climate change they're dying from DEI".
Plus, a lot of people subscribe to the "if there's smoke there's fire" logic, and the Right have built a giant smoke machine on the whole "LAFD DEI" thing. Even if they're all debunked, determined deniers can assume there are undebunked claims that they haven't seen.
There’s a reason they don’t have these devastating fires in Sweden or Finland…
In Finnish Lapland’s Inari region, locals and wildlife have suffered 17 fires this summer so far. Timo Nyholm, duty fire officer at the Lapland Rescue Department, has said that’s well above the seasonal average of 10. He expects the summer total to blaze past 20 fires.
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"Climate change is extending the fire season,” FMI researcher Outi Kinnunen told YLE News.
“As the climate warms, snow cover diminishes earlier, summer temperatures rise, and land surfaces become drier, even though overall precipitation is expected to increase.”
I still prefer SJW to any other instance
o_O I hadn't noticed that acronym before now.
WTF is going on? What's up with UniversalMonk? I've never heard of him before, or any of this drama.
Okay, I read some of those links he linked and as I understand it this is what's happening: UniversalMonk is creating alts on different instances to evade bans. He then complains that he wasn't notified about his bans, as justification for his ban evasion.
The problem here is that the ban was never about banning his account, the point of a ban is to make someone go away, and either 1) after he was banned he tried to post on his account, failed, and so made a new account on a different instance then posted from the new account (i.e. normal ban evasion), or 2) he was posting from several different accounts and simply switched to a different account to post without even noticing his other account was banned - in which case, yeah, if he's doing the behavior simultaneously across multiple accounts, all that's left to do is ban all of his accounts.