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Air Pollution is responsible for 1 out of 9 lives lost every year! We can solve this. It’s our obligation to do so. @attn
Drivers to be hit with £200 fines under new mobile phone laws – nottinghampost.com
Gemma Toulson – Nottingham Post
Officials say it’s part of plans to further improve road safety.
The new rules come in from January 1, 2022
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Glaciers are melting faster than cities are adding zero-emissions cycling infrastructure I JDavey I Twitter
@jdavey_2
Glaciers are melting faster than cities are adding zero-emissions cycling infrastructure.
Because “people don’t like sudden changes”
How can Britain become a ‘great cycling nation’ when it’s so scary to ride a bike? | Adam Becket | The Guardian
There is a pothole on the Bristol Road just north of Nailsea, north Somerset, which I cycled over at about 30mph back in June. It casually blew out both my tyres; somehow I managed to skid, on my two flats, to a stop. It is in moments like this that your vulnerability as a cyclist comes into focus, and you realise how little there is between you and death: a bit of plastic on your head, a thin bit of Lycra, your wits and skill on the bike.
Britain’s roads are in a terrible state thanks to austerity. According to the RAC, 6% of B and C roads are in need of repairs, a proportion that has remained the same for the past five years. It is bad for cars, but even worse for cyclists riding in the gutter.
One thing you quickly learn when out riding, as I have been for more than 300 hours this year, is you have to pay attention. Vehicles can appear at any point and will do anything. I have been pushed into hedges by two-tonne SUVs, almost T-boned by hatchbacks, forced to dice with death in narrow bike lanes. It is simply accepted that this is what cycling is: taking your life in your hands every time you get in the saddle.
I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day – theguardian.com
Peter Kalmus
The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen.
The film, from director Adam McKay and writer David Sirota, tells the story of astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her PhD adviser, Dr Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), who discover a comet – a “planet killer” – that will impact the Earth in just over six months. The certainty of impact is 99.7%, as certain as just about anything in science.
The scientists are essentially alone with this knowledge, ignored and gaslighted by society. The panic and desperation they feel mirror the panic and desperation that many climate scientists feel. In one scene, Mindy hyperventilates in a bathroom; in another, Dibiasky, on national TV, screams “Are we not being clear? We’re all 100% for sure gonna fucking die!” I can relate. This is what it feels like to be a climate scientist today.
Va Va Vélo! Car adverts in France will have to promote cycling and walking under new law – road.cc
Macron Government wants to encourage people to ditch their cars for everyday journeys
Simon Macmichael Dec 31, 2021
“Va Va Vélo!” as former Arsenal and France star striker Thierry Henry may have to say in any future adverts for Renault – from 1 March, car adverts in France will be required to promote cycling and walking and other sustainable forms of travel.
Under the new government regulations aimed at reducing pollution, including vehicle emissions, people will also be encouraged to car-share or to take public transport.
The new rules were signed into law by a decree of the Ministry for Ecological Transition on Wednesday 29 December, reports ladepeche.fr(link is external).
They will apply to advertising across all major media – print, TV, radio, billboards and online – with ads carrying one of three messages.
Those are “For short journeys, prioritise walking or cycling,” “Think about car-sharing” and “On a daily basis, take public transport.”
“We can no longer use 50% of the capital for cars when they represent only 13% of people’s journeys,” said deputy mayor of Paris, David Belliard” APPGCW on Twitter
APPGCW on Twitter ““We can no longer use 50% of the capital for cars when they represent only 13% of people’s journeys,”
“The most destructive wildfire in Colarado’s history and it’s happening in late December” – Ben See – Twitter
This is the most destructive wildfire in Colarado’s history and it’s happening in late December and the road name in the photograph is ‘Coal Creek’. But there’s no mention of abrupt climate change on the front page. Come on, editors, it’s time. This is it.
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behaviour – pnas.org
Paul K. Piff, Daniel M. Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner
Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed.
I get a lot of the same questions about pedestrian streets over and over so maybe an infographic will help – Queen Anne Greenways
@QAGreenways
I get a lot of the same questions about pedestrian streets over and over so maybe an infographic will help.
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