Mad_Cyril that isnāt backed up with cold hard stats.
Meant to reply to this earlier: I donāt think youāre 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 donāt care.
On their points though, thereās 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, Iām 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.
Theyāre clearly more dangerous too:
https://road.cc/content/news/suvs-8-times-more-dangerous-kids-walking-or-cycling-295527
So I donāt think there are too many claims in there that are a stretch.
As a planet we drive more SUVs than we ever have, thatās not because we all carry more stuff or spend more time off road, itās 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.
