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> Stop driving?

Not a realistic solution. The vast majority of people will take the microplastics over not driving.

You say "vast" but we have to outlaw non-car options and legislate that only car options are allowed for nearly all our land.

If we were to even legalize non-car options, we might discover what the market actually wants. And the necessity of those laws kind of shows that the non-car option must be legally suppressed to prevent its true market preference from being revealed.

To everyone who thinks that the "vast majority" of people prefer driving, I say: show the confidence of your convictions and make it legal to build other options.

> legalize non-car options

What do you mean by that? Which non-car options are outlawed?

Dense walkable neighborhoods like you'd find in most parts of Europe.

Until the concentration is high enough it affects birth rates.

It might already do.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but birth rates are already pretty low, and, worse than failing to deal with the problem, some people think that is a good thing.

Falling birth rates _is_ a good thing and in my view its the only viable solution to global warming. Less people is less energy use and pollution.

Birth rates isn’t what motivates people. It’s the act that creates births that people care about. To that end, until it causes impotence.

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