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Suburban sprawl and car dependence go hand in hand

“Suburban sprawl leads to more high-speed roads, longer distances between centres of daily activity and more time in cars. All these factors increase the risk of road deaths and injuries.”

“Car-dependent neighbourhoods deprive children of opportunities essential for their health and wellbeing. They miss out on physical activity, unstructured play, social interaction and developing social networks. In addition, traffic noise and air pollution expose them to a wide range of environmental and health problems.”

“How can we develop better planning policies to create neighbourhoods that properly meet families’ needs? Some policies already exist, such as 15-minute or 20-minute neighbourhoods, to reduce private car use for daily activities. But these policies get sidelined when governments promote suburban sprawl and build more freeways.”

“Car-centric planning dates back to the 1950s. Since then, Australian suburban fringe development has largely failed to create child-friendly neighbourhoods.”

“If governments are serious about the needs of families with children, they could start by acknowledging children’s needs and rights to be able to get to their daily destinations without a car. To deliver neighbourhoods that make this possible, governments need to be bold and decisive in their planning.”

“Suburban sprawl and car dependence go hand in hand. Our politicians must commit to urban planning where cars are no longer privileged. Otherwise we deny our children basic rights to learn, play and socialise safely in their own neighbourhoods.”

https://theconversation.com/urban-sprawl-is-not-a-dirty-word-if-the-priority-is-to-meet-all-kids-needs-it-should-be-208670
#RoadDeaths #Backyards #15MinuteNeighbourhoods #sprawl #children #dependence #rights #Bellingen #NSW #roads #pollution #noise #FossilFuel #cars #mobility #so50s

SUVs are a killers for the climate and pedestrians

“Australians are driving bigger, heavier, dirtier cars and it's alarming both climate and road safety experts. SUVs made up 55 per cent of the cars sold in the first six months of 2023. At the moment, the average Australian household has two petrol cars in the garage. Australia’s uptake of SUVs is wiping out the climate gains from electric vehicles.”

"Internationally, SUVs are driving an increase in oil consumption, which is at odds with the need to reduce emissions. Australia has been described as a "dumping ground" for dirty cars that can no longer be sold internationally because of their emissions...Australia's current situation with high transport emissions can be partly explained by not already having... standards, unlike 80 per cent of the world."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-15/big-cars-on-aussie-roads/102603092
#climate #health #PublicSafety #crash #pedestrians #cyclists #safety #oil #consumption #dependence #emissions #SUVs #cars #vehicles #pollution #climatechange

AuDHD people are at an increased likelihood of smoking. Despite this, research priorities fail time and again to look into quality of life issues just like this.

Many of us started these behaviours when young as a way of self-medicating our struggle to survive in a world not made for us

https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/07/13/audhd-and-cigarettes-what-is-the-relationship/

@actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy #adhd #adhder #audhd #audhder #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #addiction #dependence

#dependence : subjection (as of an effect to its cause)

- French: dépendance

- Italian: dipendenza

- Portuguese: dependência

- Spanish: dependencia

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

#dependence : subjection (as of an effect to its cause)

- French: dépendance

- Italian: dipendenza

- Portuguese: dependência

- Spanish: dependencia

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

I just read this #interesting #article on #GenerativeAI. There are some things to consider in that piece.

I have a #prediction of my own: #dependence will come swiftly, as will #failure and then #forgiveness. In a generation there will be 2 distinct groups: those who #depend on AI for #knowledge and those who learn independently.

#PowerStruggle #WhoWins 🧐

8 Predictions on How Generative AI Will Change Our Lives Forever

https://www.makeuseof.com/predictions-generative-ai-change-lives/

Europe must resist pressure to become America’s followers: #Macron (3)
-- He also suggested Europe should reduce its #dependence on the “extraterritoriality of the U.S. dollar,” a key policy objective of both #Moscow and #Beijing

-- “If the tensions between the two superpowers heat up … we won’t have the time nor the resources to finance our #strategicautonomy and we will become vassals,” he said.

China Ready to Talk Asian Monetary Fund to Cut Dollar Dependence, Malaysia Says - An idea to establish an Asian Monetary Fund has caught the attention of the Chines... - https://news.bitcoin.com/china-ready-to-talk-asian-monetary-fund-to-cut-dollar-dependence-malaysia-says/ #internationalmonetaryfund #nationalcurrencies #regionalcurrencies #asianmonetaryfund #tradesettlements #anwaribrahim #fiatcurrency #currencies #dependence #u.s.dollar #malaysian #xijinping #currency #malaysia #chinese

#russia #nuclear #Europe #dependence

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/business/economy/russia-nuclear-energy-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=I7mGJ-WbQQM5T211WFoYLbYypRNrJrT_TckiIMtwbOoka0gRxPfBx7ZS-_Uf30IUAFPAh2Dmtij_44wnhHo2AE5_gJfQQ4QxHAi3xInH6ABHN_J3gY3tijePWcKjSf2qmicBug144jnzZ6ZypIg3jEYeae4MO_EC5o-KyhXuPkJ1UVfiwgoyansohvR-MdT9vb0x4Dydw-KagKaAmpm3mSOkuz6k8daCZg8F121HigEZPYQP9qNHI1FsbUvoqpq0jYZ-p020_x9ggy14--XbXgYsxiJNLptmsLa5cYN8ijlPR95UBn3BMxzhxLHBC3oXmhSUwOvQXwsyVi4K_NnoArBHqquPbc9xP-DGW-HlazI&smid=url-share

#dependence : subjection (as of an effect to its cause)

- French: dépendance

- Italian: dipendenza

- Portuguese: dependência

- Spanish: dependencia

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

Each time I’m confronted with #Christians or #Evangelicals or #Capitalists or #Communists or #Nationalists or in fact any #religion it’s impossible to keep from responding with #reason and #skepticism. #Faith is the #capitulation of our only true possession, our capacity for #reason. It’s only #ignorance and #fear that compels one to be consumed by #dependence on “#someone” or “#some_thing.” That’s where #evil is born, you need only look to #history for the proof. Just sayin

Latam Common Currency to Focus on Settlements Among Mercosur and BRICS Countries - President of Brazil Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva clarified the scope and reach of the... - https://news.bitcoin.com/latam-common-currency-to-focus-on-settlements-among-mercosur-and-brics-countries/ #luisinacioluladasilva #albertofernandez #commoncurrency #fernandohaddad #sergiomassa #settlements #dependence #u.s.dollar #economics #argentina #mercosur #brazil #brics #latam

Each time I’m confronted with #Christians or #evangelicals or in fact any #religion it’s impossible to keep from responding with #reason and #skepticism. #Faith is the #capitulation of our only true possession, our capacity for #reason. It’s only #ignorance and #fear that compels one to be consumed by #dependence on “#someone” or “#some_thing.”  That’s where the darkest #evil is born, you need only look to #history for the #proof. Just sayin

'On Distance and Kernel Measures of Conditional Dependence', by Tianhong Sheng, Bharath K. Sriperumbudur.

http://jmlr.org/papers/v24/20-238.html

#kernels #dependence #dimensionality

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations." — Kofi Annan — — — #KofiAnnan #quote #quotes #humanity #history #survival #destiny #dependence #world

@takeoutweight @BartoszMilewski

#JudeaPearl​’s #Causality

https://plato.stanford.edu/search/search?query=Judea+Pearl

> <em> To give a #causal #explanation is to give a model of a situation. </em>

A #model of a #situation? -- Or rather: A #model of a #process ? Or: A #model of a time-like or at least light-like #dependence ? ...

After all, it was #greed and the pursuit of short-term #profit that led to #dependence on autocratic states. It wouldn’t have been impossible to make semiconductors in the USA or Europe, I think reading an article in #ForeignPolicy by Larry Diamond:„The greatest threat by far is from the world’s most powerful autocracy, China. It’s not the democracies of Asia, Europe … that threaten the security of U.S. supply chains for strategic minerals, semiconductors and so on.“ #supplychains #decoupling

@SmudgeTheInsultCat Our utter #dependence.

"How #Medicine is Failing a Nation in Pain": Amazing discussion of the management of #chronicPain and helping #patients shed their #opioid #dependence. I suffer chronic #pain, so Dr. Warraich really spoke to me. Most powerfully, he highlights the psycho-emotional component of pain, and speaks of redirecting our fear and #anxiety about pain in order to help relieve it. I work on that every day (#martialArts helps!).

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973355 (free subscription required)

#doctors #meds