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micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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Don't be an asshole or you will be permanently banned.

Respectful debate is totally OK, criticizing a product is fine, but being verbally abusive will not be tolerated.

Focus on discussing the idea, not attacking the person.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Apparently our governments are too corrupt and/or ineffectual to take any genuinely meaningful action there.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You could stop directly ~~finding~~ funding the oil companies on that list by using an ebike instead of a car.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the oil companies can always be found on that list. It’s what they do, by definition or they wouldn’t be oil companies.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I have fixed the typo

[–] sudoku@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

You wouldn't find oil companies on the list if we stopped using oil...

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These companies make and sell the things you buy. Pretending it's nothing to do with consumers is so disingenuous

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like tabacco and asbestos?

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, a lot of people buy tobacco and so have a role in that industry's harmful practices. And no, nobody buys asbestos.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 0 points 5 months ago

Are you being obtuse for any particular reason?

The reason nobody buys asbestos is because it's regulated by government, as is tobacco and while we're at it, most of the rest of society..

Regulating the 57 companies responsible for 80% of emissions since 2016 is a way to effect change at a significantly faster rate than any other option.