Srsly though imagine if governments treated climate change with anything like the same seriousness as they're treating covid19
Won't happen. Climate change consequences are diffused, same as with deaths from car accidents and cardiovascular diseases. People are unable to perceive such risks seriously. In case of Covid-19 politicians and businesses are concerned of short-term and mid-term losses which are quite likely. In case of climate change losses are long-term and uncertain, and they believe they have "emergency measures" at hand if things really go south.
@kravietz @lazarski cars are designed for safety much more than they used to, however, that progress was made a bunch of decades ago.. Ralph Nader is often credited as a prominent person in this.
Also designs of the roads in the US at least, not sure. (In the Netherlands there are lots of speedbumps, bicycle lanes etc)
Don't know about US but I have comparison with Eastern Europe.
In these countries people can be scared by many irrational things (5G, vaccines, nuclear power plants etc) but routinely ignore those that kill them most: smog from coal, car accidents and cardiovascular.
Coming myself from Poland I struggle to explain what is exactly the argument to ignore the latter. I guess in most cases it's just simple denial.
my perceiption is in recent times both safety and eco improvements for cars got introduced concurrently, it was the EU and domestic govts who pushed them forward via regulation and enforcement.
AFAIK NL is a world leader at providing safe transport for everyone (not just cars), and this was deployed quite quickly starting from the 1970s (but has not been repeated elsewhere in Europe, other than maybe DK?)
@lazarski @vfrmedia was mainly talking just about safety aspects of cars. Cars themselves, of course still kindah suck.
@kravietz@social.privacytools.iough, yeah 5G, saw someone boost some of that shit. 😞
Suppose it's not the entire story, but if you ignore a matter, you don't need an argument for ignoring it. (also you can use `site:` in a search engine and try find what arguments are used)