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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 05:12:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Chris Johnson

   @cxj @t54r4n1
   I mean…•some• things really will take decades. Fundamentally changing the housing density of a whole city, for example, really can’t happen overnight. (Even Robert Moses, near near-authoritarian power over local development in NYC, took 40+ years to reshape NYC as being as car-centric as it is.)

   But •some• things could indeed happen really fast: reworking streets for lower-mass vehicles, replacing old HVAC with heat pumps, ending petrochem electricity….

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     Chris Johnson (cxj@phpc.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 05:12:57 JST Chris Johnson

     • :pine: the ☀️ & the ?

     @t54r4n1 @inthehands Exactly. That 20-50 year timeframe is the length of the battle without political capital. If we can change that political part some how, technologically it could be done damn near overnight (days to a few years).