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Greta’s school strikes led 30% of Swiss citizens to change habits (www.euronews.com)

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[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

The average trip length in America is something like 2 mi in distance. That's a distance that you could walk, and you can bike that in less than 5 minutes. So Americans really can meet a lot of their daily travel needs to the store and short errands by means other than a car.

The biggest problem in America is twofold: infrastructure and behavioral patterns.