These companies have significant influence over government. This has lead to public transit being gutted and most people being forced to own a car. Car companie

These companies have significant influence over government. This has lead to public transit being gutted and most people being forced to own a car. Car companies invented the concept of "jay walking" to banish people from public streets. People in our current oligarchical capitalist society have little choice but to engage with it. It's not a moral decision that most people can make. Individuals and corporations are compelled to ignore negative externalities. We could have public transit and cycling, use reusable glass containers, have more locally based economies, and also have better, more fulfilling lives than now. But we don't. And we are bringing cataclysmic damage to our planet and ourselves in the process.