but the only hope for accountability is a massive blue wave in 2026

So there is no hope.

No it wouldn’t. It would be normalized and people would forget it was a thing.

Almost a decade for me.

I’ve been stockpiling since 2015

echo chamber

This isn’t Reddit.

Don’t forget the National Weather Service.

“so you should know I’m an anarchist”

I stopped reading there

THANK YOU, jesus fuck. Without anyway to stop this from happening it’ll just get worse over time. Lemmy is awesome but all the “old tricks” still work here.

Thinking you need fertilizer is the problem.

Only half of the world’s croplands are used to grow crops that are consumed by humans directly. We use a lot of land to grow crops for biofuels and other industrial products, and an even bigger share is used to feed livestock.

https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

This is a beef and corn problem fueled by subsidies.

So just like a regular car.

Exactly, thank you. If you build a 6-lane highway in Montana it’s not going to magically fill up with traffic, thus one can conclude that context is missing from the Reddit-tier explanation of induced demand or that the entire idea of induced demand is wrong.

Mapbox sells your work for a profit.

Maybe the shitty UI update on Reddit.