we understand that you drive because you have to. the problem is that most people aren't trying very hard to imagine ways to drive less, or ways to build commun

we understand that you drive because you have to. the problem is that most people aren't trying very hard to imagine ways to drive less, or ways to build communities that don't utterly rely upon everyone owning a car. its not a problem that an individual can fix overnight. its got to become a social movement with lots of new technology and new social institutions and new beliefs and values behind it. as things stand now its easy to feel powerless and give up and say "doesn't matter, I'll be dead before our society changes enough to make not driving a viable alternative". and that's why nothing ever gets done about this problem. its still a problem though and at the rate things are going now we won't ever solve it before it becomes a crisis. so that's what will happen. inevitably there will be a crisis and then we'll have to confront the problem under much more desperate circumstances.