novaTopFlexDec 15

Favorite Automobile?

Unfortunately, I do not believe that automobiles have any form of ethical merit, and I believe that car dependency is the most devastating crisis of modern history, especially the Americanized version of history. Without the auto industry, and especially without the profit motive, safety would become significantly more paramount. Since I believe that all automotive infrastructure is inherently exploitative and unethical, I do not believe that I have the right to say that I have a favorite […]

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Favorite Automobile?

Unfortunately, I do not believe that automobiles have any form of ethical merit, and I believe that car dependency is the most devastating crisis of modern history, especially the Americanized vers…

novaTopFlex
BellingenNSWSep 16, 2025

Australia’s new climate adaptation plan:
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/national-adaptation-plan.pdf

Major Australian gas project extended until 2070
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw1d2wdj84o
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #cars #Automobility #CarDependency #pollution #MobilityDesign #oilandgas #AmericanWayOfLife #CarMinds

BellingenNSWApr 16, 2025
“Bike riding is largely viewed as a recreational activity – I think that’s the principal philosophy here.”
(in Australia) >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/sudden-closure-of-iconic-bridge-to-cyclists-shows-car-is-still-king-in-brisbane
#MobilityDesign #cars #Australia #mindsets #FossilFuel #climate #Automobility #harm #cyclists #pedestrians #ActiveTransport
Sudden closure of Story Bridge to cyclists shows ‘car is still king in Brisbane’

Bike riders say they were given no notice about shutdown and have not been told when route will reopen, leaving many facing long detours or choosing to drive

The Guardian
Manly BlogApr 13, 2025
“Bike riding is largely viewed as a recreational activity – I think that’s the principal philosophy here.” (in Australia) >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/sudden-closure-of-iconic-bridge-to-cyclists-shows-car-is-still-king-in-brisbane
#MobilityDesign #cars #Australia #mindsets #FossilFuel #climate #Automobility #cyclists #pedestrians
Sudden closure of Story Bridge to cyclists shows ‘car is still king in Brisbane’

Bike riders say they were given no notice about shutdown and have not been told when route will reopen, leaving many facing long detours or choosing to drive

The Guardian
EngagingSTSjournalMar 28, 2025

The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood

👀Bricolageyumyum.bsky.social & mcforelle.bsky.social: https://doi.org/pcgp

Driving into a Paywall: The Subscriptionization of Consumer Vehicles | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Patrick RératMar 14, 2025

Des résidus de pneus retrouvés dans de nombreux légumes vendus en Suisse 🚗

Tyre particles found in many vegetables sold in Switzerland

#automobility

https://www.rts.ch/info/sciences-tech/environnement/2025/article/alerte-residus-de-pneus-detectes-dans-les-legumes-suisses-etude-revele-28795187.html

Des résidus de pneus retrouvés dans de nombreux légumes vendus en Suisse

Une étude à paraître, mandatée par la Confédération, révèle la présence de résidus issus de l'abrasion de pneus dans les légumes consommés en Suisse. Près du tiers des légumes analysés contenaient des additifs chimiques utilisés dans la fabrication de pneumatiques.

Radio Télévision Suisse
BellingenNSWFeb 22, 2025

Highway expansions and road widening
How America (Australia) Can Break Its Highway Addiction

"After a century of rampant roadbuilding, the U.S. highway network is ubiquitous, dominating the American landscape in bucolic rural settings as well as dense urban ones. Rather than being a tool for mobility, it has become a monument to an auto-centric lifestyle that fouls the air and depletes the public coffers. Neither the country nor the planet can afford to keep expanding it."

"At the federal level, even asking questions about the collective climate impact of highway building appears verboten."
>>
https://slate.com/business/2024/08/construction-traffic-cars-driving-transportation-highway.html
#Sprawl #roads #highways #expansion #cars #automobility #industry #asphalt #Motordom #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #NSW #CoffsHarbour #bellingen #GlenifferRoad

It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late.

The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.

Slate
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Feb 15, 2025

Friday Video:
How #America Got Hooked on #Cars

#CNBC put together a solid 15-minute explainer on #car dependency that's perfect for sending to anyone who's never thought about the role of #automobility in their life.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/14/friday-video-how-america-got-hooked-on-cars

Friday Video: How America Got Hooked on Cars — Streetsblog USA

CNBC put together a solid 15-minute explainer on car dependency that's perfect for sending to anyone who's never thought about the role of automobility in their life.

BellingenNSWJan 13, 2025

How Europe crashed its car industry
Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

"The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
https://unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-crashed-its-cars/
#cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

How Europe crashed its car industry

UnHerd
BellingenNSWJan 6, 2025

Australia's lack of fuel security

"Our way of life
depends upon cheaper oil and fuel coming from overseas, but it does so at the cost of our security and resilience...The thought of not having food in cupboards and fridges or prescription medicines would likely exercise people's minds a lot more than the ill-informed thoughts they had during COVID about toilet paper." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/australia-fuel-security-falling-short-foi-war-game-report/104745210

Tangled up in oil in Petrotopia
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/113773037156395951
#energy #vulnerabilities #fuel #FossilFuels #cars #oil #petroleum #fuel #mobility #dependency #EnergyDependency #Australia #infrastructure #automobility #roads #malls #highways #Petrotopia #PetroMelancholia #CarDependency #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #transformation #societies #MiddleEast #FuelSecurity #MSO #WayofLife

Australia's fuel security falling short as 'war-game' report, released under FOI, reveals vulnerabilities

A report on an emergency exercise released under Freedom of Information reveals how Australia's dependency on imported fuel could leave it vulnerable to geopolitical tensions.

ABC News