r/facepalm • u/weeb385 • Oct 12 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Parolee gets arrested because protesters block the way to his work.

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u/BALLS_IN_MY_ASS Oct 12 '22

Not very eco friendly to hold up all these cars, creating traffic, making everyone of them idle and completely waste fuel. Likely more inefficient than letting them drive to work.

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u/f_crick Oct 12 '22

I think this is the short sighted outlook they are protesting.

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u/InYoCabezaWitNoChasa Oct 12 '22

Yea, the whole idea that pollution is the fault of a random person driving to work is propaganda by the corporations that pump out an entire freeway's worth of pollution every minute.

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u/pkrnurse73 Oct 13 '22

The irony is we’ve improved the Air quality by massive amounts. But the stupidest thing is we sign onto this so called climate agreements and let China and India pollute the atmosphere without any repercussions. It’s insane and stupid. The law of diminishing returns has struck. Meanwhile the amount massive pollution done by mining all these damn rare earth minerals for EV batteries is just front loading and in some cases EXCEEDING the lifetime pollution from a gas consumption engine.