Post #819216

2026-03-27 17:01 UTC

&quot;While some people benefit from automobility, nearly everyone—whether or not they drive—is harmed by it. Slowing automobility’s violence and pollution will be impracticable without the replacement of policies that encourage Car Harm with policies that reduce it.” This is a quote from a 2024 paper entitled, &quot;Car harm: A global review of automobility’s harm to people and the environment&quot;, and I finally made a video about it (now on Nebula &amp; Patreon): https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-every-reason-to-hate-cars

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@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com 2026-03-27 17:01

If you'd rather watch on Patreon the link is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/car-harm-154038369 And as usual, the video will go public on YouTube on Sunday.

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@jfmezei@cosocial.ca 2026-03-27 18:37

@notjustbikes North America’s economy is politically attached to cars (and steel/oil). Very hard for politicians in Canada and Ontario to fight to lower car addiction since that means job losses in key Ontario tidings. And very hard for Ottawa to fight to lower oil production for both Alberta politics and tax revenues. Car addiction is deeper than just consumers.

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@DiversionsManifold@toot.io 2026-03-28 14:12

@notjustbikes I completely lost track right near the very beginning at the page turn in the Car Harm paper, where I thought: huh, there's a corner pub called The Marginalised Bear? Yes, even with the 'The' below, my brain parsed it that way... took a few seconds of processing to work that out. Thank goodness for rewind 😀 The real message is sobering: The marginalised bear the most harm.

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@SuperManifolds@todon.eu 2026-03-29 15:08

@notjustbikes Decided to listen to this video a second time while walking to the grocery store now that it's on YouTube and while doing so I had to make my way past 3 different cars parked on top of the sidewalk 😩

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