Favorites September 18th 2021

Nathanael Aff @nateaff

Reminds me of these charts I came across recently. The lowest income quintile in the US spends ~30% of it's income on transportation compared to the EU where the lowest income quintile spends ~8%. Car dependency is an enormous cost for the poorest people in the US

Warren J. Wells 🚴🏙️ @WarrenJWells

You know that cars benefit the rich more than the poor, because if it were the reverse, we would have banned cars from cities decades ago.

This graph is just mind-boggling to me. I guess I can imagine how it happens, but i'm surprised it's so stark.

New Yorker Cartoons @nycartoons

Cartoon by Meredith Southard “I’m going to leave you alone with this avocado, and you can either eat it right away and have an underripe avocado or wait a little while and have a completely rotten avocado.” newyorker.com/cartoon/a25307

A play on the marshmallow experiment, a test of delayed gratification.

Randall Munroe @xkcd

Scientists are the best (From doi.org/10.1038/ngeo18…)

Important to call out these caveats

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Petition to rename the YIMBY movement "The Society For Putting Things On Top Of Other Things"

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

If only we had the technology to stack houses vertically, we could make high-demand areas so much more affordable to live in

Monty python reference.

David Roberts @drvolts

Imagine have this choice and opting to stick with coal.

I really hope China does the obvious thing here. (and stops building new coal plants)

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