Work by Ron Cobb

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Today? F1 is a fucking travesty - rich assholes burning crazy amounts of fuel to speed around in circles taking more from future generations every fucking lap.

    While I don’t disagree that spectating races is boring, the amount of CO2 those put out pale in comparison to commutator traffic or the container ships running bunker fuel. We could have EV races and if each manufacturer entered their base models, could help with adoption. We could also make the ICE races run biogas(methane from antibiotic digesters) or biodiesel(tractor pulls could easily adopt that with only a small lowering of performance that all the tractors would share).

    but anything combusting is a giant middle finger to your own children.

    All consumption is.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      All consumption is.

      consumption for production is one thing, entirely optional, benefitting only one party entertainment coming at the cost of everyone else?

      that’s a dick move.

      • lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 hours ago

        The emissions from 20 cars driving in circles for a few hours a week could continue until the end of humanity and still be just a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of damage the production industry has done up to this point.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          bud the bucket overflowed a long, long time ago. now it’s pouring over the rim, and you’re like: eh, it’s just a few thousand tons of CO2 every year, for funsies, it won’t matter.

          it all matters. you’re just too vroom vroom to fucking care.

          • lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            2 hours ago

            The emissions from the cars themselves isn’t even 2000 tons of CO2. That’s 1/200000 of 1% of annual emissions. If you’re that concerned, you shouldn’t be on this site because the server, your computer, and your router are all adding CO2 to the atmosphere.

              • lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                30 minutes ago

                Then you better not live in a house, turn your lights on, use your computer, go to the grocery store, go see a movie, go to a concert, buy anything at all, travel any other way than by foot. Or you could put your effort into something that’ll actually make a difference.

                • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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                  3 minutes ago

                  quack quack quack, sure bud, you know the math, it’s easy to figure out: you’re adding to it… FOR FUN.

                  I don’t.

                  Don’t worry, one day you’ll get there, and meanwhile, your children will rightfully despise you regardless.