Post #3944351
2026-07-19 16:41 UTC
Our ability to remake how we live is not limited by finance, it is limited by the political will, by the natural resources and technologies available to us, and the human labor to actually put them into use.
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@gcvsa@mstdn.plus 2026-07-19 16:48
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. '