As you have said over and over, it is about an urban zoning that does not require cars. Car centric development is not liberation, it is the continuing loss of money, time, community, loneliness, welcoming, attractive community, separation, exercise, companionship, commonly shared community spaces, walkability etc etc.
I wish out here in the boonies, that we could get behind public transport. Poor rural people as a part of carbon pollution I bet are some of the worst in contributing to climate change. There is some weird thing against it and every damn body has to have a car.
Well put. There are no easy answers. Can't beat walking and biking - even e-bikes have issues.
EVs seem to be particularly vulnerable to flooding with sea water. When they burst into flames it can take 10-30,000 gallons of water to control the blaze, not 1,000 like a gas powered car.
"The Automobile manufacturers say, “The personal automobile allows people to live, work and play in ways that were unimaginable a century ago.” This is true, but it is not necessarily a good thing. The manufacturers call cars a liberating technology, but it is the opposite, chaining us to a high-carbon lifestyle where we are dependent on the car for access to markets, to doctors, to jobs. As Lewis notes, we have to reimagine how we live now so that we don’t have to depend on a car for every trip."
Yep, let's live like our forefathers did during the Middle Ages - never straying more than 5 miles from "the village" (be it physical like they want to create in Vermont or virtual villages made from physical cities).
And demanding that we put up with "intermittent power" like they did then. 'Cept back then, they could chop down their own wood...
To get fewer cars we need a different land use policy, one that enables active and public transportation. Until then electric cars are a bridge solution.
As you have said over and over, it is about an urban zoning that does not require cars. Car centric development is not liberation, it is the continuing loss of money, time, community, loneliness, welcoming, attractive community, separation, exercise, companionship, commonly shared community spaces, walkability etc etc.
I wish out here in the boonies, that we could get behind public transport. Poor rural people as a part of carbon pollution I bet are some of the worst in contributing to climate change. There is some weird thing against it and every damn body has to have a car.
Well put. There are no easy answers. Can't beat walking and biking - even e-bikes have issues.
EVs seem to be particularly vulnerable to flooding with sea water. When they burst into flames it can take 10-30,000 gallons of water to control the blaze, not 1,000 like a gas powered car.
CTIF.org, https://www.wnem.com/2023/02/16/local-fire-departments-train-ev-fires/
Yep, BACKWARDS to the Future!
"The Automobile manufacturers say, “The personal automobile allows people to live, work and play in ways that were unimaginable a century ago.” This is true, but it is not necessarily a good thing. The manufacturers call cars a liberating technology, but it is the opposite, chaining us to a high-carbon lifestyle where we are dependent on the car for access to markets, to doctors, to jobs. As Lewis notes, we have to reimagine how we live now so that we don’t have to depend on a car for every trip."
Yep, let's live like our forefathers did during the Middle Ages - never straying more than 5 miles from "the village" (be it physical like they want to create in Vermont or virtual villages made from physical cities).
And demanding that we put up with "intermittent power" like they did then. 'Cept back then, they could chop down their own wood...
Really good points. We can't fix the climate crisis with business as usual, much as we would like to think so.
To get fewer cars we need a different land use policy, one that enables active and public transportation. Until then electric cars are a bridge solution.