@dangoodin @ianrosewrites @chu I would frequently hike...

@dangoodin @ianrosewrites @chu I would frequently hike some hills right along Pacific Coast Highway (Crystal Cove for those who know it). I noticed that some would come down, get in their cars, start them up and run the air conditioner .. even when it was in the '70s. I'm thinking to myself, here you are, with an onshore breeze and the cleanest air you're ever going to breathe .. what are you even thinking?

I guess they're not thinking, just doing what they automatically do.

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T Chu 朱

@John @dangoodin @ianrosewrites

A reminder that I hate humans.

22 April at 20:18 | Open on climatejustice.social

Dan Goodin

@John @ianrosewrites @chu

A neighbor across the street was camped out in her running car for 45 minutes while talking on the phone. I finally approached her and asked if she might considering turning off her engine and she was outraged. She feels perfectly entitled to pump exhaust into my window. It's really maddening. Unfortunately, she and so many others like her, aren't likely to vote for common-sense climate legislation anytime soon.

22 April at 21:00 | Open on infosec.exchange

joel b

@dangoodin @John @ianrosewrites @chu There is a public park with a pair of baseball diamonds / soccer field very close to where I live. When they use the field for kids sport practice the entire parking lot is full of parents inside their idling cars either using their phones or watching the practice.

22 April at 21:09 | Open on social.tummyacid.net

John Socks

@dangoodin @ianrosewrites @chu yeah. I was a Prius driver* for a number of years. I was low-key about it, but I kind of tallied the reactions of friends, family, and strangers.

The vast majority of them thought that I was doing something odd, and I took that as the takeaway.

* - as well as a frequent pedestrian and bicyclist

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