“change rage is real, and trying to argue people out of it rarely succeeds. Which is why fighting negative externalities should, where possible, leave the way people live more or less untouched.”

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This is so familiar to anyone who has worked on pedestrian safety, bicycle paths and the like. It is, sadly, very true about climate change mitigation.

A loved one with a cognitive disability reacts to any new thing with NO. (It can take him 1-2 days to process, when left alone he may quietly change his mind.) I have learned that many of his traits are far more common that I once thought.

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