To be fair, public spaces in my country already have loads of trees in most places. In my city, there’s a park that doesn’t get mowed because they’re letting it grow into a grove. The trees are also very tall and healthy. It’s goddamn beautiful. Incidentally it’s also part of my commute whenever I walk (which depends on how early I manage to wake up, really)

I think most of us have a hard time finding anywhere to plant.

If you’re not a landowner, you’ll have to volunteer somewhere, but I’ve looked it up before and there aren’t that many opportunities in my country. The organization in charge of national forests has their own staff for it.

Ironically the best way to get into it here is to join a specific local fuel station chain’s “donate a cent per liter and we match, every 25 cents is a tree” community, which occasionally reaches out to members to help plant all the trees they’ve received donations for. So the easiest way to get to plant trees is to… buy fossil fuels???

I have two potential routes for one specific part of my journey home from work. One is shaded, the other is not.

The difference in temperature I perceive is MASSIVE. Maybe the difference in air temperature isn’t, but a couple of degrees difference in ambient temp + not having the sun actively microwave me adds up.

It might power 36k households on average but definitely not during times of any serious load.

At night all I’ve got running for several hours is my fridge.

OP could just compare the E30 3-series and the G20 3-series and there would already be a size difference. Of course, much of it stems from safety features taking up extra space (hello crumple zones, airbags, etc) and there’s also simply a little bit of more space in a modern car.

To truly make a point here, you might want to compare a pickup truck from the 80s or 90s vs the 2010s or 2020s. Those have gotten unnecessarily big with no excuse.