There’s a pervasive idea that small cars are unsafe because of the people who drive larger cars.

Unfortunately that does indeed seem to be supported by the data. So we have this arms race of everyone wanting the larger cars for their own safety at the cost of everyone else’s, especially non-drivers.

There’s no talking people out of it because it does have a safety benefit. Even if someone hates giant cars, they overwhelmingly feel they have to get one because everyone else is. It’s another way capitalism pits individuals against each other to the detriment of everyone involved. The best way to address it would be to ban oversized cars (or cars in general) so the safety threat is eliminated.

The US having the most stake in the fossil fuel economy is one of the biggest reasons everyone should be adopting renewables.

Guess what isn’t controlled by other countries? When the source of energy is sitting on your own soil!

Wait till you realise that destroying capitalism necessarily means destroying the environmentally disastrous luxuries that capitalism normalises and encourages.

You think we can just get rid of capitalism and all our capitalist consumption habits would magically be hunky dory? The environment doesn’t give a shit about what ideology you have as far as consequences for humanity are concerned, it gives a shit about whether you’re exceeding the limits of what the system can sustain. Animal agriculture will be just as inefficient, wasteful and unsustainable under any ideology (and just as intrinsically cruel under any ideology), the most a smarter ideology than capitalism can hope to do is recognise that fact and identify it as something we should stop doing.

Easiest solution: ban milk. And cattle. And all animal agriculture.

Would solve a lot of humanity’s issues even if you don’t give the slightest shit about animal rights.

I’d make a math joke about how technically you’ve only been to an infinitely small subset of that rectangle because your movement is 1D on a 2D plane but I don’t know enough math to make it funny.