Is vehicle pollution still a problem? Yes, here’s why it still harms health and climate - Science Feedback
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Main Takeaways

  • Internal combustion vehicles – those that run on gasoline and diesel fuel – produce CO2 and a number of air pollutants.
  • Over recent decades, big improvements have been made in reducing vehicle-emission pollution; however, it is still problematic at a global scale.
  • Transport accounts for one fifth of CO2 emissions globally; of this portion the majority comes from road transport (cars, motorcycles, buses, and taxis).
  • Rising atmospheric CO2 from vehicle emissions and other human activities has been driving recent global warming.
  • Air pollution from vehicles has health effects like respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and even an increased risk of getting cancer.
  • You can reduce your vehicle pollution by using more sustainable transport options like electric vehicles, ride sharing, walking, bicycles, and public transport.
  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    5·
    11 days ago

    Tires… Car tires are a major producer of microplastics

    Please please please, stop using a car for micro trips. Anything under a kilometer you can walk… anything under 5 kilometers you can bike. Use an eBike if needed, then you can quite easily make that 20 kilometers.

    Demand your government looks at the Netherlands (and now France too, apparently!) on how to do cycling infrastructure the right way. It doesn’t have to be the shit with huge congested roads that we have today.

    Please please stop destroying this planet, pretty please with a cherry on top?

  • Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    I collect used engine oil and used cooking oil, filter it and, run my van off it.

    Is that considered being green?

    • Sonori@beehaw.org
      2·
      11 days ago

      Kinda sorta? The carbon still goes into the atmosphere and there’s such demand for used cooking oil to run vehicles that there have been cases of new cooking oil being mixed into used because it was more valuable for vehicles than cooking, but if it was definitely going to get burned in a waste incinerator than better than nothing.

      Climate wise, electrification (either for bikes, cars, buses, or trains) remains the only option and is something everyone is going to have to do eventually, but economic wise the higher upfront costs limits access.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    So you’re telling me that car pollution in still in fact car pollution? Holy shit the revelation!