I am not a fan of the fuckcars crowd because I think their abrasive approach is doomed to fail. At the same time, I'm sorry but I just don't buy that there is a

I am not a fan of the fuckcars crowd because I think their abrasive approach is doomed to fail. At the same time, I'm sorry but I just don't buy that there is a human right to a car centric lifestyle. I'll take it more seriously when we seriously address the many problems caused by excessive car reliance. To name a few: severe injury due to collisions, obesity and other health problems due to inactivity, noise and light pollution, destruction of natural habitat/migration patterns as well as mass roadkill, fragmenting of communities, destruction of neighborhoods, the loss of childhood independence, the loss of mobility for those who cannot safely drive, the subsistence trap for low income workers who rely on their cars to get to work and thus can't save any money, depletion of fossil fuels and the list goes on... And, yes, of course there are also benefits. On the net though, I think mass private vehicle ownership is one of the worst mistakes we've ever made although I don't blame any individual for their choices. The reasons people use cars are rational but the externalities of mass car ownership are significantly and ultimately I believe unsustainable and undesirable. At the same time, chill, nobody is coming to take your cars or your guns.