People Are Overly Obsessed With Climate Change And Do Not Care About Other Issues.
They get unnecessarily VIOLENTLY angry if you address how other political issues are also important.
They are rabid, and do not have 'chill' mode. It's impossible talking to them at all. They also force their beliefs about using public transportation on everyone when they don't take into account that not everyone lives in a city.
Also, they fail to acknowledge that public transportation is not safe.
Listen, I get that climate change is a thing. But it's not THEE ultimate and almighty issue.
Certain large cities like New York? When I visited, public transit was how I got around and while it wasn't the cleanest I'd ever seen, people just went about their business being bored and doing their best to not annoy anyone or engage with anyone annoying.
That's how public transit is in big cities all over the world btw: just bored people on their way from one place to the other while releasing a hell of a lot less CO2 and other pollutants and killing a hell of a lot fewer people than people in cars do.
Have you ever been on a road trip with the family, and you've been stuck in traffic for a while, and you start to get low on gas, but the next station is closed, and you aren't sure if you'll make it to the next gas station, so your trying to drive in a way that conserves fuel, but the traffic is barely moving? And then two people in the back start arguing over the song on the radio, and they demand you change the station? This is like that, except if you run out of gas, everyone on earth will die. Everyone you care about will suffer and die. All of the children everywhere, whether they starve or freeze or drown or burn, their lives will all be cut painfully short, all because you ran out of gas.
Actually, it kinda is the almighty issue of the day, similar to how nukes and the cold war was that issue for our parents and grandparents. It's a reflection of humanity's kryptonite, a problem that is both too big (to fix) and too slow/small (to care about), simultaneously. Somehow.
If we can't grow up enough to address it in a serious fashion, we're going to rip ourselves to shreds in the coming centuries, as technology gives us more and more power to change our world in ways we can't necessarily foresee. With nukes, we just had to "don't shoot", and everything would be fine. No apocalypse. With this, and other potential future problems, we have to do something to help, we can't just wait and do nothing this time. We need to devise a new general strategy, better than wait-and-see.
Regarding mass-transit, that's a more complicated issue. Global warming is not though, global warming is a very simple issue. Which ends up being part of the problem, annoyingly, as it's so easy for people to come to lazy conclusions concerning it.
Who is the “they” you’re referring too? From the title I guess all people are too heated up over climate change for you? (See what I did there ;) I am absolutely a climate activist but I for sure have a chill mode. I’m not violent and all I do is try to educate my friends and family. If we don’t address climate change we will destroy the world that’s a fact, so to me it is THEE most important issue. (FYI- thee actually means you, it’s not a stronger form of the like you’re using it).
And, you aren't wrong about most of it! The only thing I'd disagree with is the relative importance of the issue. Even that's only because we're at a tipping point where shit is getting close to being impossible to fix.
I agree that there's a shit ton of zealotry around the subject, and that public transportation is not the answer to the problem everywhere. Folks that live in rural areas simply can't use public transport because it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist because there's got enough tax base to support it. And there's not enough population to use it even if it was economically feasible. That means that you're still causing the same amount of pollution unless the area can support electric bases transport, which isn't always possible.
And, you're dead on with public transport not being safe everywhere. Even in fairly stable cities with good levels of security personnel have troubles. All you have to do is check places like r/subwaycreatures used to be, or publicfreakouts, or the lemmy equivalents, and you'll see that even in places with great subway or bus service, you aren't guaranteed a safe ride.
And places with less security? There's way too many stories of women being damn near raped on busses in countries around the world to pretend that humanity is trustworthy in tight, cramped busses and trains.
Folks that live in rural areas simply can’t use public transport because it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist because there’s got enough tax base to support it. And there’s not enough population to use it even if it was economically feasible
There was a recent thread around here somewhere about a small town that replaced its bus service with a public on call van service. They compared themselves to a public version of Uber but with fares like a bus service.
Yes you can have transit anywhere: it just may have different forms
Public transportation is a quality of life thing, it's a way to get to and from the bar without drunk driving. Also, I recently enjoyed this video A Former Farm Kid's Thoughts on the Anti-Car Movement and I liked it.