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These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us | Not Just Bikes [35:26] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de to c/videos@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/319198

I got a lot of push-back on a comment I made here about how bigger trucks/suvs are the primary cause the increasing pedestrian death-rate in America so apparently more people need to see this video.

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[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

By that logic, consumers should quit conserving water and recycling. Agriculture uses around 70% of all freshwater globally and 20 corporations produce over half of all the plastic waste in the entire world.

The video actually specifically stated SUVs have the second greatest increase in emissions by sector.

[–] TableBreaker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of all plastics recycling is a lie and aluminum is now excluding anything with shrinkwrap or adhesive labels. Where I live, we can pay extra to recycle, but they dump it in the same truck and take it to the same landfill because they can't get anyone to pay enough to truck it out.

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah for sure. Corporations actually made up of the plastic numbering system specifically so they could sell more plastic and it has been shown that recycling doesn’t work. https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recycling-was-a-lie-a-big-lie-to-sell-more-plastic-industry-experts-say-1.5735618

Getting pretty off topic here though lol