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Your situation doesn't reflect the majority's situation, that's what people need to understand, with better public transport it's a very small minority that needs a car.
I do understand that. But this meme doesn't understand me.
In a way it does, if cars didn't exist you would have found work closer to home and your environmental impact would be lower. Your situation exist because cars allow it to.
That's a bad way to phrase it because it frames cars as technological innovation providing a benefit.
The reality, and the best way to phrase it, is different: his situation exists because massive government subsidies for car infrastructure allows it to. He's not an enjoyer of modern convenience; he's a welfare queen.
Thank god it's not like that because I have a great job and a great life that was enabled by the freedom that my cars have given me. Y'all can get rid of your cars but I will always have one regardless of the law or society's opinion. I'd build my own fucking car if you couldn't buy one even.
Good thing memes don't have to account for every individuals experience in the world huh
The meme makes a blanket statement forgetting about a big swath of rural people, falsely claiming that EVs don't address climate change when the cold fact is that EVs do represent a way for people like me to contribute to the solution. A meme like this deserves a reminder like mine.
Or you could simply remember that it's just a meme and stop getting so worked up!
Signed, A rural EV owner
Or, I could make a small post so that one of our rural neighbours, driving an SUV, doesn't read "EVs don't solve climate change" and think to themselves "Hey, that's true, may as well continue on with my SUV".
In America this is an extremely common situation. Public transit is abysmal here. We need to build that up before we start removing car infrastructure.