kim_harding ✅Jun 28, 2025
"A cyclist can go 3 or 4 times faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well."
—Ivan Illich
Show threadJohn RobinsonJun 28, 2025
@kim_harding Unfortunately we have cars.
Show threadkim_harding ✅Jun 28, 2025

@johnelalamo Time we got rid of them, if we want a liveable planet...

I know some people don't like to face reality, but they can't break the laws of physics with wishful thinking, not matter how much neoclassical school economic likes to pretend otherwise...

Show threadJohn RobinsonJun 28, 2025
@kim_harding Not sure how politically popular it would be though. No, not true, I do know how unpopular it would be!
Show threadhex
@johnelalamo @kim_harding it doesn't matter how politically popular it will be. We're getting rid of cars one way or another. Either we're going to choose to get rid of cars on our terms, or we're going to let them collapse society so they can't be supported anymore. You don't get to choose "cars or no cars." You only get to choose "complex society without cars, or no society at all."
Jun 28, 2025 at 10:45pmWeb