As soon as I was old enough to comprehend what we were doing in the middle of the desert I knew that we were simply Icarus waiting for the wax to melt.
“They haven’t yet taken that step to say, we’ve been wrong for the last century,” King told me. “Which I think is a critical thing that the cities have to do.”
Key point. This is a problem decades in the making and won’t be fixed overnight. The transition will be uncomfortable.
“There’s a lot of people who don’t like to accept the truth when it implicates them in the system,” King told me. “If parking is the problem, then I have to drive less. Maybe I’m the bad guy.”
This pattern affects much of humanity’s problems. People don’t want to admit they’re imperfect. Easier to deny the outside world than feel uncomfortable.
Key point. This is a problem decades in the making and won’t be fixed overnight. The transition will be uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable is an understatement, a century of car culture doesnt undo itself overnight.
If we’re lucky it’ll only take 2 generations for people’s habits and preferences to change, but that requires investing in infrastructure that may not get fully utilized for decades.
The solutions are there, but the people need to be swayed.
Bullshit. Watch car culture die the moment gasoline reaches 10 dollars per gallon. The US will start to treat distances the same way Europe does currently.
This is a really well written article. Like totally irrelevant of the subject matter, this is remarkably good writing. Rare to see.
They should rip out & discard all the asphalt in Arizona and replace it with seeded grass and keep it watered constantly. Temperatures will decrease but unfortunately since it’s literally a desert where Arizonians are fighting against the forces of nature, they’ll quickly run out of water supply. Also Arizona is prime property for water-thirsty data centers which is another tragedy caused by modern oligarchs.
You know what? Arizona is a desert and maybe it’s time people accept it’s not a habitable place for humans. Nature always wins.
The natives who lived there for thousands of years would disagree. There are ways to live sustainably in the desert.
Yes and they’ve done it by cooperating & synthesizing with nature, instead of fighting against it.
I lived in Arizona for about a year. Plenty of people there love it (or they were born or retired and are stuck there & force themselves to love it) and they embrace the heat, AC utility bills, the sand, cacti, arid mountains but I’ve lived all over the world and there are so many more beautiful pleasant places I would rather be.
Lemmy is the only place on earth where the average IQ is high enough to point out the indigenous population, while simultaneously incapable of realizing the nuance that, yes the hyperbole and snark in the message is directed specifically at the capitalists and suburbanites.
