Cars are great. The problem is not cars, it's bad planning for walkability and alternate transport. You can have a large, sparse, American suburb, and also have

Cars are great. The problem is not cars, it's bad planning for walkability and alternate transport. You can have a large, sparse, American suburb, and also have a dense, walkable, bikeable, mostly-quiet city center that feels much more human and safe, and also have long-distance public transport for people who want or need it. Well, OK, fossil fuel powered cars are a bit of an environmental midpoint, and just moving traffic out of city streets isn't quite enough if they have very nonlocal pollution on top of their local pollutants, but electrification and renewables are both set to make that problem far more sustainable already.