OP, you are in for a seriously rough time if you think containing micro plastics is as simple as removing lead from gasoline and paint.

Each lane/road provides a fixed capacity (supply) of vehicles. The induced demand caused by a surplus from a newly constructed road is the economic phenomenon of demand/supply curves which tend towards equilibrium. Same for the desire to build more roads when demand meets or exceeds capacity.

https://study.com/cimages/multimages/16/supply_and_demand.gif

This happens in all areas of transportation and human activity, btw, it is not unique to cars.

The first issue is some wierd expectation that surplus (no traffic) should be the natural state (it isn’t). The second issue, specific to cars, is that roads saturate very quickly and scale poorly, so the return to equilibrium (saturation) happens much faster than other forms of transportation.

It’s hollow and thin walled. You’ll be picking shards of glass out of your anus before that thing gets deep enough.

Assuming a constant rate of change of anything involving people over a period of ten years is straight up nonsense.

It’s not just Bikinis. It’s all swim wear, saunas in Europe, baths in Japan. It’s just socially acceptable and expected in the right context, and that expectation plays a huge role in comfort. The context seems to flip a switch in people’s brain.

People want news. It’s a need as primitive as gossip. In fact, gossip is probably the answer to your question. But gossip is neither fast nor reliable, so people will inevitably invent news organizations to satisfy the need, as much as we have invented agriculture to satisfy our need to eat.

Perhaps when you say “news organizations” you intend a much more narrow definition, like maybe a “privately owned news organization”? That’s a dramatically different question though.

Imagine living in a society where we collectively decide some people just get all the privilege to themselves, and the rest of us can just roll around in the mud, and everyone is ok and happy with that.