Our car-based environments are making us sick

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Our car-based environments are making us sick#13499097

By QatzelOk - 14 Sep 2010 01:52

- 14 Sep 2010 01:52 #13499097

Streetsblog NYC wrote:Our Car-Based Environments Are Making Us Sick
by Angie Schmitt

Behind some of America’s most pressing health problems — obesity, diabetes, depression — there’s an often ignored culprit: a built environment that is hostile to active lifestyles.

As the U.S. medical industry pours billions into treating epidemic diseases, it is merely addressing the symptoms of “deep-rooted structural issues” while neglecting the underlying causes, says Dr. Richard Jackson, chair of the School of Health at UCLA and former head of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Jackson — one of the leading voices on the role of the built environment in America’s public health crises — confronted car dependence this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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The author goes on to quote a doctor who points to all the secondary illnesses that are a result of the obesity that comes with a car-addled suburban lifestyle.

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By Jarlaxle - 14 Sep 2010 02:35

- 14 Sep 2010 02:35 #13499118

Then don't drive a car and walk everywhere. Live your own life and STOP TRYING TO RUN MINE.

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By QatzelOk - 14 Sep 2010 05:42

- 14 Sep 2010 05:42 #13499191

Live your own life and STOP TRYING TO RUN MINE.

No one's trying to run your life.

If reading seems intrusive, don't read.

If you're happily obese, ignore this article entirely.

The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange

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By Jarlaxle - 15 Sep 2010 01:53

- 15 Sep 2010 01:53 #13499882

No one's trying to run your life.

Are you a liar or do you not actually read your own posts?

If reading seems intrusive, don't read.

Is this something that only makes sense when baked?

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By grassroots1 - 15 Sep 2010 01:56

- 15 Sep 2010 01:56 #13499889

Jarlaxle, driving all the time is a reason many Americans don't get enough physical exercize. Our car-based transportation contributes to environmental problems. What is there to object to so strongly here?

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By Jarlaxle - 15 Sep 2010 03:18

- 15 Sep 2010 03:18 #13499957

Mainly, Qatz's incessant and semi-coherent (at best) trolling.

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By Aekos - 16 Sep 2010 21:41

- 16 Sep 2010 21:41 #13501137

Jarlaxle, are you overweight?

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By Jarlaxle - 17 Sep 2010 02:13

- 17 Sep 2010 02:13 #13501300

A little. My wife is a fitness fanatic.

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--Jim Steinman

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By yiwahikanak - 11 Oct 2010 03:35

- 11 Oct 2010 03:35 #13520928

Jarlaxle wrote:Then don't drive a car and walk everywhere. Live your own life and STOP TRYING TO RUN MINE.

Actually, I'm more worried about emissions than people's fat asses.

Your car habit is worse than any amount of second hand smoke. There should be a class action lawsuit against everyone who maintains such a deadly lifestyle.

Justify it to yourself all you want, but your choice to help kill other human beings (and even put your own health at risk) is morally bankrupt in every way.

"I feel you need to try and invent misapprehensions by other posters that do not exist to create the opportunity for you to stroke yourself in your special area." -AuContraireVoltaire

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By Jarlaxle - 12 Oct 2010 01:41

- 12 Oct 2010 01:41 #13521745

Yet again (sixth time now, I think): my car is an ULEV. What comes out the tailpipe is often CLEANER trhan what goes in the air intake.

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I know that I will never be politically correst
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--Jim Steinman

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By yiwahikanak - 12 Oct 2010 02:57

- 12 Oct 2010 02:57 #13521781

Put it in your sig then. Or maybe, you know, shut up when it comes to these threads? Since they obviously don't concern you as much?

Prius: allowing people to hold on to their car-centered lifestyle, and somehow absolving them of having to deal with anything beyond emissions.

"I feel you need to try and invent misapprehensions by other posters that do not exist to create the opportunity for you to stroke yourself in your special area." -AuContraireVoltaire

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By QatzelOk - 12 Oct 2010 05:24

- 12 Oct 2010 05:24 #13521843

Jarlaxle is a car-bot.

His only contribution to this form is talking about how much he loves cars, driving, and his auto-centric lifestyle.

He owns seven Cadillacs and watches ZZ Top videos when he's not commuting.

It's his "theme," Yiwa.

The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange

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By Jarlaxle - 13 Oct 2010 02:12

- 13 Oct 2010 02:12 #13522736

I am absolutely a car nut...avid hot rodder, own three cars, a truck, and a motorhome, and used to wrench for a living. I own one Cadillac and detest ZZ Top.

Do not own a Prius and wouldn't own one if you gave it to me...the ULEV is a Dodge Magnum R/T.

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By yiwahikanak - 13 Oct 2010 15:14

- 13 Oct 2010 15:14 #13523097

Ah. So you have highly polluting hobbies.

How morally bankrupt.

"I feel you need to try and invent misapprehensions by other posters that do not exist to create the opportunity for you to stroke yourself in your special area." -AuContraireVoltaire

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By Pants-of-dog - 13 Oct 2010 16:19

- 13 Oct 2010 16:19 #13523145

Yet again (sixth time now, I think): my car is an ULEV. What comes out the tailpipe is often CLEANER trhan what goes in the air intake.

If your car is a ULEV, as you claim, then your car pollutes 50% less than the average car.

It is not cleaning the air as you claim, but instead is simply taking twice as long to create the same amount of pollution.

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That's how the light gets in...

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By Jarlaxle - 14 Oct 2010 03:14

- 14 Oct 2010 03:14 #13523613

I don't claim that, that's what the emission tag under the hood says: the car is a Tier II ULEV.

9 months until Hot Rod Power Tour 2011.

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--Jim Steinman

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By yiwahikanak - 14 Oct 2010 14:34

- 14 Oct 2010 14:34 #13523941

Low emissions or not, it's undeniable that people who do not drive pollute less than you do.

"I feel you need to try and invent misapprehensions by other posters that do not exist to create the opportunity for you to stroke yourself in your special area." -AuContraireVoltaire

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By Oxymoron - 14 Oct 2010 16:11

- 14 Oct 2010 16:11 #13524001

I drive every where I go in my SUV, pollution smallution.

Poverty is a Mind Set.

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By QatzelOk - 15 Oct 2010 02:15

- 15 Oct 2010 02:15 #13524528

I drive every where I go in my SUV, pollution smallution.

You just roll down the window to pee?

The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange

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By Oxymoron - 16 Oct 2010 15:52

- 16 Oct 2010 15:52 #13525619

How else?

Poverty is a Mind Set.

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