Mad_Cyril that isn’t backed up with cold hard stats.
Meant to reply to this earlier: I don’t think you’re gonna get citations in a leaflet, nobody who has just had their tyre let down is gonna read them. Plus, most SUV drivers no exactly what they are doing and don’t care.
On their points though, there’s not much argument that SUVs are bad for the climate:
https://www.iea.org/commentaries/growing-preference-for-suvs-challenges-emissions-reductions-in-passenger-car-market
SUVs were the second-largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions since 2010 after the power sector, but ahead of heavy industry (including iron & steel, cement, aluminium), as well as trucks and aviation.
You can argue the impact climate change is having, but we are defo getting hotter, and if were not seeing the consequences yet, we will be soon.
https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2018/warming-stripes/
Personally, seeing houses in London burst into flames last summer, something I have never seen in my lifetime, I’m of the opinion we are already seeing the impacts of climate change. NASA agree too:
https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
We already see effects scientists predicted, such as the loss of sea ice, melting glaciers and ice sheets, sea level rise, and more intense heat waves.
They’re clearly more dangerous too:
https://road.cc/content/news/suvs-8-times-more-dangerous-kids-walking-or-cycling-295527
So I don’t think there are too many claims in there that are a stretch.
As a planet we drive more SUVs than we ever have, that’s not because we all carry more stuff or spend more time off road, it’s just because of men with small penises and marketing shite. Everyone needs to be more like Amps: hung like a horse and driving an estate.
