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  • If they have a hybrid, the engine doesn’t idle all night, only intermittently to charge the battery.

    It is more ethical and better for the environment to leave a hybrid running all night (engine only kicking on every so often) than a typical home or apartment which has a much bigger daily carbon impact. A hybrid isn’t the same as a normal idling car.

    People die in heat and live in their cars. Do you go without air conditioning when it’s over 100 degrees out? No, because you don’t want to die of heatstroke, right? So why is your indoor climate control more justified?

    And yeah car exhaust is bad for everyone, I agree, including the person in the idling car.








  • That’s why they want to ban it, so we can’t put up sumshades or sun screens to delay climate change effects and reflect UV. Eg a few years ago they wanted to spray sulfur in the atmosphere, because it would block the sun somewhat. I’m opposed to this or any shield like that (which is not easy to remove or clean) and think we should build a giant flat metal blanket in space to stay locked between earth and the sun to deflect whatever percentage of rays we can get it to deflect. And then start mass carbon squestering programs. But we needed to start all that a decade ago.