Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷Feb 15, 2025
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@KimSJ the cities of today did not exist 100 or even 50 years ago. The car-defined city is a modern invention that in retrospect was... a very bad idea. Pollution, noise, waste, congestion. We have normalized everything in the name of convenience but even discounting sustainability its a broken design. The latest incarnation, grotesquely massive SUV's to move one or two individuals is peak callousness.

But we are now so deep inside the cesspool, its not going to be easy to climb out of it.

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@KimSJ @openrisk But climb we must. And oppose the environmentally destructive plan to replace all ICE cars with EVs. We need to get rid of the cars.
Feb 16, 2025 at 12:21pmWeb
Show threadOpen RiskFeb 16, 2025
@pedestrians1st @KimSJ its a plausible outcome where it counts most: the vast numbers of dense urban centers. But it will take concentrated efforts among very many different players and resisting the vast vested interests that will try to undermine and delay the inevitable every step of the way.