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Stop buying and using cars. Cars are the worst, most destructive invention in human history. Want global peace? Stop driving cars and burning oil. Want to s
by lasermike026 3y ago
Stop buying and using cars. Cars are the worst, most destructive invention in human history. Want global peace? Stop driving cars and burning oil. Want to save the environment? Stop driving cars and burning oil. Want to bring life back into your community? Walk. Want to get healthy and get into shape? Walk. Want to commute? Bike and take public transit. Want to take control of your life and dump these disgusting corporations? Don't buy, don't drive, and don't burn oil.
- idopmstuff 3y agoWhat about the large number of people who live in places where this isn't possible?
- thejohnconway 3y agoThe problem is that cars made it possible for people to live in those sorts of places, cheaply enough. Not a solution, just an observation. If cars weren't really a thing, people would live in denser communities with walkable services (I include rural communities in this. Pre-car villages are pretty dense, and have, you know, things like shops, etc.).
- tayo42 3y agoIs that really true? We were getting around with horses before cars. You have to go back real far to get to a point where we weren't getting around faster than walking
- eesmith 3y agoHorses aren't that much faster than walking. Horses can go about 30 miles/day. (That's the reason the Spanish mission towns in the US west were spaced about 30 miles apart.) That's also about what people can walk in a day (Appalachian Trail through-hikers do about 3 miles per hour). Now, trained trail horses can go far further in a day, but they require specialized training, food, and care, making them a very expensive plow-horse or cart-horse.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThat is the intractable political problem. Short term pain is unavoidable to get to the long term fix, and voters have no tolerance for short term pain (still measured in decades).
- pharmakom 3y agoReversing decades of creeping car dependency will be difficult.
- alfalfasprout 3y agoYeah, no. I enjoy my cars very much.
- thejohnconway 3y agoI am in favour of making you pay for the externalities with taxes. Fair?
- GauntletWizard 3y agoSo long as you're willing to pay full price for a loaf of bread after we make that move, and you're willing to understand that no-one owes you said bread, and that you will starve when you're unable to afford it.
- thejohnconway 3y agoObviously, in a quick rejoinder I have not given a complete overview of my opinions on the matter. We obviously need delivery vehicles, electrified where we can. I'm hoping we can find something better than a two-ton box for moving a single person around to arbitrary locations. Small single-person electric vehicles, like an enclosed quad-bike, for example, seem more proportionate. None of this can be done immediately, but it can be phased-in over a sensible amount of time. Shame we didn't start 30 years ago.
- verdverm 3y agoWhat would you replace all the plastics and polyester with?
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- verdverm 3y ago