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I really struggle to think why restricting car development in light of environmental concerns would have been a bad thing. Much milder climate change? Better-de
by lores 2y ago
I really struggle to think why restricting car development in light of environmental concerns would have been a bad thing. Much milder climate change? Better-designed, more pleasant cities? No leaded gasoline? Sure, economic growth would have been held back a couple of decades, but no one would have really noticed.
- readthenotes1 2y agoWhat makes you think anything would have come of it? They wouldn't have known the dangers of leaded gasoline for another 70 years, for example. When you say hold back economic growth, what you're really talking about is people dying from starvation.
- defrost 2y ago> When you say hold back economic growth, what you're really talking about is people dying from starvation Population expanded to eat the post WWII agricultural boom - economic growth apparently leads to more mouths at risk of starving. Why not let populations match economic activity rather than create greater and greater problems with endless expansion and greater resource demands. ie. You're taking as gospel something that needn't be.