> Living in a world where everyone is eating healthy local food, where you live longer because it’s safe to use your bicycle and hard to use the car. Living in

> Living in a world where everyone is eating healthy local food, where you live longer because it’s safe to use your bicycle and hard to use the car. Living in a world where you can walk everyday because there are trees to give you their shadows. As someone who dislikes physical movement or being outdoors, this sounds terrible. Local food is often heavy in ingredients I don't like or to which I am allergic, or doesn't fulfill my nutritional needs and desires. This is not the idea of an ideal world for many modern people. I'd much rather we solve the issues related to being sedentary with technology than we try to figure out how to make everyone bike everywhere, which most people don't want to do, even given the option. I don't wash my clothes by hand and I'm not sure why bicycling is seen as some ideal correspondingly. I'd take a 200 year perfect artificial heart over safe bike lanes. I'd take better solar (to run more AC and dehumidification) over more trees. I've swallowed enough bugs whilst cycling for more than one lifetime. Your position, to me, is still just a yearning for historical lifestyles that we abandoned en masse for good reasons. Using energy on air conditioning and transportation are perhaps the least stupid things one can spend energy on - right alongside spending energy on washing machines for your bedclothes and underwear, which nobody seems to regard as some insanely wasteful luxury. Why is energy for heating seen by europeans as OK when energy for cooling is regarded as a senseless waste? It's just cultural bias and tradition. When the majority of humans live in space or on bodies without an atmosphere, this whole "fresh air and trees" meme will finally die, I hope.