No one is going to take your planet-killing hefty-bag lard transportation device away. We’re just going to keep you from killing the healthy citizen pedestrians.

Yes. Cars should be banned from cities. Banned. 90% of your travel in the city is easily accomplished by walking, by bicycle, by public transportation.

So—we have to render the planet uninhabitable for humankind and two thirds of the animal and plant species because—saving the planet would require diminishing the profits of a handful of rural gas stations?

Bless you, you wonderful showcase of willful ignorance.

Oh my god. Seriously?

You are being purposefully obtuse. You said:

Yeah. It’s got to feel nice that girls are less scared of the world than you are.

It is not always too hot or too cold. How about you just try to bike to work when it is reasonably comfortable to do so?

Bikes are even better for unhealthy, unfit people. And bikes are even better on steep inclines and declines.

Perfect.

You have no idea what a +5 C planet is going to be like, do you? But heaven help us if Jake has to sweat. On the scale of things, that’s so much more important than the vast majority of life going extinct.

No. You get very warm, very quickly. Your body becomes an engine, and produces an huge amount of heat. After about ten minutes going 25 mph, at 32F, I have to stop and take off my jacket. It takes longer for the car to warm up.

No one is suggesting you bicycle to work in the rain.

Why is exercising cruel and scientifically ridiculous?

No.

It should take you 35 minutes to bike to work, with traffic lights and stop signs.

And you are killing the planet. Good for you!

Oh my god. How fucking stupid are you? The first car was built in 1886. If we had maintained that level of carbon output, we would have a carbon budget which would last a thousand years.

Don’t worry. Phoenix, like Miami will soon not have to worry about transportation alternatives which would help prevent the earth from becoming an uninhabited hell.