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2026-07-19 16:48 UTC
There is simply no disputing that, as David Owen put it in his 2012 book, "The Conundrum":
' Personal mobility underlies and exacerbates almost all the most tenacious environmental challenges, including the consumption of energy in other forms. The critical environmental damage…is not caused by the fuel that they consume…(it) is caused by all the other consumption that driving fosters—consumption that would not occur on the same scale if drivers couldn’t move around as easily as they do. '
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@gcvsa@mstdn.plus 2026-07-19 17:00
I wrote this 13 years ago. I've been #CarFree now for 5 years. For the past 11 years, I've lived in a multi-unit bulding in the heart of my town's population center, in a town with an Amtrak station that goes directly to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC. When I wrote this, I was living in a high-rise flat in downtown Seattle (with an F-150 4x4 pickup in the garage). I've put my money and my life where my mouth is. Text in the image alt text. https://www.tumblr.com/gcvsa/78092608843/earth-child?source=share