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[โ€“] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 38 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Saw this on Facebook and the comments were teaming with boomers and morons insisting it was because cars are now more aerodynamic.

[โ€“] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago

That will have a non-zero effect, but it's far from the whole story.

[โ€“] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Because cars in the 90's weren't aerodynamic? There's been improvements, sure, but most cars then still had pretty good coefficients of drag.

But sure, blame anything except climate change.

This but unironically coupled with about half the total insects we had back then.