Social media has accelerated this. No one would know who this guy was in the 90s, for example.

Consumer use of private vehicles and air conditioning / heating absolutely have a non-negligible impact.

Nah it’s time to hold Boomers accountable. They were too busy focusing on hedonism, selling out future generations for a tax cut and buying pickup trucks they didn’t need, to care about big picture concepts like climate change.

Amazing how generous we are with our language when the criminal is Hitler-approved demographically.

In an open marketplace I’m afraid that is a competitive disadvantage Especially with a 1 in 3 approval rating.

If you use your truck as a truck often that’s fair. My ire is more directed at those that fall into the categories below (and I know several people that do, some of whom are upper middle class and seven figure salary folk who just want the appearance of ruggedness).

According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-truck-you-need-a-cowboy-costume

Its a good yoke but coming at a South Asian person for the anglicized spelling of a South Asian word is the sugar syrup on the Gulab Jamun.

Honestly it’s pretty embarrassing for 6’1 55 year old too.

Western masculinity can be so fragile that some think consumerism is the only out of it.

Basically if you’re using a pickup as a commuter vehicle…you probably don’t make good life choices.