{"id":20595,"date":"2025-04-27T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=20595"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:16:39","slug":"like-its-much-easier-to-go-carless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/like-its-much-easier-to-go-carless\/","title":{"rendered":"Like: It&#8217;s much easier to go carless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-indieblocks-like\"><div class=\"u-like-of h-cite\"><p><i>Likes <a class=\"u-url p-name\" href=\"https:\/\/thoughtshrapnel.com\/2025\/04\/26\/its-much-easier-to-go.html\">It&#8217;s much easier to go carless if your city has good public transit | Thought Shrapnel<\/a> by <span class=\"p-author\">Doug Belshaw <\/span>.<\/i><\/p><\/div><div class=\"e-content\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This article by the World Resources Institute shows how important it is that there is an infrastructure that enables individual decision-making to take place. For example, I\u2019ve been vegetarian now for eight years, and it\u2019s much easier to remove meat from your diet these days even than when I started to so in 2017. Likewise, because of investment in EV infrastructure, these days it\u2019s unproblematic to own or lease an EV.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of supportive infrastructure, policies or incentives rings true. My own situation makes an EV difficult: cost of an EV &amp; charging when tenement living. My current job needs a 40 minute commute by car, or a couple of hours each way by public transport. I hope that is offset by not having a car till I was 49. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The page lined by Doug is a great read too: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wri.org\/insights\/climate-impact-behavior-shifts\">The Most Impactful Things You Can Do for the Climate | World Resources Institute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by the World Resources Institute shows how important it is that there is an infrastructure that enables individual decision-making to take place. For example, I\u2019ve been vegetarian now for eight years, and it\u2019s much easier to remove meat from your diet these days even than when I started to so in 2017. Likewise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/114409403205265002","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3lnrzh53crw23"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953,1075],"tags":[943],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-20595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-posse","7":"category-reaction","8":"tag-doug-belshaw","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-article","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5mb","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20600,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions\/20600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20595"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=20595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}