The impossible paradox of car ownership
www.vox.com
For many working-class Americans, cars are a burden and a necessity.

Researchers calculated gas consumption from vehicles from 1949 to present and found that if American-owned vehicles were their own country, they’d be the sixth largest emitter of carbon dioxide on Earth.

  • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    Even the program, mentioned positively in the article, is focused on giving more people cars instead of improving walkability and transit.

    In an article that decries car dependancy, their solution is make cars more affordable.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yes. And that is the car feedback loop:

      • ends with deadly gridlock traffic
      • destroys even more land
      • sprawls until everyone’s bankrupt
      • grows car infrastructure until everyone’s bankrupt
      • or leads to tolls everywhere until the poorest are bankrupt