to all of you who worry about this stuff: do you drive? do you walk or live next to roads? do you make sure there's a low concentration of CO2 in any room you're in?
If not, those things are way more worrisome than any sweetener unless you chug 50 liters of soda per day.
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The thing about us nordics is that we're actually car-centric, our infrastructure makes driving comfortable and convenient by keeping the people who actively don't want to drive off the roads, and we actually use logic to design the roads.
For example you'll note that the vast majority of roads here only have one lane in each direction, with more lanes added only at junctions. Because adding lanes in the middle of a road barely ever helps, the junctions are where you need to do fancy stuff because they're the bottleneck in the system. Hence why we also really really like roundabouts.
The US isn't car-centric, it's just outright incorrectly designed and if anything makes driving as miserable as it can possibly be, for most people. Sitting trapped in your car in bumper-to-bumper traffic is barely a thing up here.
your country is the size of the netherlands and equally flat, what precisely is the reason they can do it and danes can't?
Also, 10km at e-bike speed (25 km/h) is not even half an hour, and if there aren't tons of cars on the roads then you don't need bike infrastructure beyond covered parking, so what's the problem with biking that distance?
the key word here is "some", having a couple friends who you know struggle with it isn't the same thing as being surrounded by people who never initiate contact.
You can't expect someone to prop up most of their relationships, that's a nutso amount of effort.
EVs would be an objective improvement if people actually bought small sensible ones, but of course that would entail actually changing their lifestyle and thus it cannot happen.
The only good car is a kei car.
roads designed for cars are massively larger than roads that aren't made for cars, a standard modern car-centric road would be a pretty major and significant thing for most of human history.
A single standard car lane is a generously wide bike path.
eeeh, i don't think this is a particularly noticable benefit.
The amount of noise given off by cars at those speeds is just an annoyance, the real problem is the tyre noise at high speeds and that's only made worse by electric cars.
They recently lowered the speed on a through-road near me from 70km/h to 60km/h and it made a pretty huge difference in how tolerable it is to be anywhere near the road, the difference between a combustion and an electric car driving on a residential street is so much smaller that it's not even funny.
there's no world without cars, but there's also no world without tractors, and i have literally never seen anyone give even the slightest shit about tractors aside from when they're stuck behind one on the road, which is kind of hilarious because even then the problem is cars as any smaller vehicle could just pass the tractor.
here in sweden more than 80% of the population already lives in an urban area, and contrary to what some people want to believe it's perfectly fine.
Are you seriously using denmark as an example of car dependence?
This is the extent of the danish rail network in 1930, there is no reason any part of denmark needs to be car dependent.
also like, people aren't putting their ID next to their dick, you can just say "well that's not me, it's fake, idk what else to tell you"
what're they gonna do, ask you to prove it's not your dick?