Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱1d ago

The coming oil crisis is going to suck, but the one small silver lining is that when oil gets expensive, cities get better.

My latest video is now available on Nebula and Patreon (YouTube on Sunday):

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-when-oil-gets-expensive-cities-get-better

Not Just Bikes — When Oil Gets Expensive, Cities Get Better

We are heading into a new oil crisis, but this isn't the first time this has happened. The good news though is that history has shown us that when oil gets expensive, cities get better, and that's likely to happen again.

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Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell

@notjustbikes

You need to take a little grief falling for the logical fallacy that it’s OK to kill human beings and wipe out entire ecosystems to extract aluminum and copper and what not to drop in replace the energy intensity of the global economy.

In the three US states where adobe can be used as a construction material. You can build houses that don’t need energy to remain comfortable year-round without any energy and with materials that are right under our feet

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Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell15h ago

@notjustbikes

Your premise is the same premise about car centric design, which is let’s throw really expensive. Long supply chain infrastructure into human daily life and think it’s good..

All the Engineering talent of the world is devoted to building out scale, which means long supply chains, which means energy intensity, and that scale that means burning the planet down or killing it otherwise