[meme] Simple problems require simple solutions
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I hate to be the one to break this to you, but we had thriving cities full of food before cars were invented
Sure, but they developed that way.
Did they?
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/6/23/kansas-citys-blitz-how-freeway-building-blew-up-urban-wealth
Whatever. The transition is never going to happen anyway. We're doomed to inertia.
I think we can make the transition safely over the next 5 years if everyone genuinely treats this as a #1 priority. And it is a #1 priority, because the human species is going extinct if we don't reduce our fossil fuel emissions to ZERO.
Dude. We need negative.
Ban cars and force the entire US population into a Kowloon-type city. Boom, easy fix! /s