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Some ways to make the situation better:

- Find a job closer to where you live or move closer to where you work.

- Get a smaller car.

- Get solar installed in your home.

- Decrease usage of disposable products. Use a shopping bag, a water bottle, your own mug, your own utensils, etc.

- Stop buying objects you don't strictly need. Prefer products that do not suffer from planned obsolescence. Prefer reusable/recyclable packaging.

- Decrease or stop consumption of meat.

- Wear more clothes instead of turning up the heater and get better thermal isolation (e.g: thicker windows).

Now, electric cars do not contaminate your immediate surroundings, but the process of manufacturing them can have a higher carbon footprint than the lifetime emissions of the vehicle.



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