Thread by @HayesBrown

this chart is about the climate crisis but doesn’t realize that it’s about the climate crisis

https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1431082551721046019

it’s also about the housing crisis and the racism that’s part and parcel with the housing crisis

a car-centric society is one that thinks that it makes sense to have stores, schools, and other services be several miles away in exchange for bigger, single-family homes. these respondents aren’t biking to and from those places.

likewise, a society obsessed with single-family homes as a wealth metric is one that rejects the idea of more multi-family housing, increasing sprawl and its accompanying climate effects

and a rejection of multi-family homes is at least in part tied to their association with the underclass, which is in turn exacerbated by stereotypes of minority apartment building dwellers dragging down property values and increasing crime rates

anyway, if you’re going to be in favor of bigger houses and further distances to retail and schools and what have you, at least have the decency to back heavy investment in public transportation

(but most of them won’t because, again, ideas about public transit granting “the wrong sort” access to your community)