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  • Mass Transit and walkable cities are a lot of things and has a lot of benefits that makes it worth expanding, but they are not an full climate solution or anything like a replacement for electric cars.

    Nobody is advocating that. There is strong advocacy for electric cars instead of mass transit, fueled by the automaker industry. You can see influences of it even in this very article.

    If we’re talking about the biggest impact to climate change, that is definitely industry activity, followed by cattle farming and only then transportation, of which daily commuting is a fraction. All the press seems to do is talk about “responsible consumption”, which is corporate speak for “don’t regulate us”.














  • Thank you for the lecture, really informative. But it applies to canyons across mountain ranges.

    I can see how that would apply to plains, as plains are usually places with active sediment deposition ( so the river whisks away new sediment around it while the rest keeps piling up).

    But then, how to explain the sharp cuts we sometimes see that show layers in plains? If for some reason that particular pain isn’t very active, couldn’t a deep canyon form anyway if the soil is sedimentary, by stripping the top layer of it through the years?