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You gonna force everyone into dense cities and make them walk

I don't advocate completely getting rid of cars, but they aren't always a good way to get around.

Why should large portions of the US be all but forced to drive a car? It requires registration, licensing, insurance, and sometimes inspections or emissions testing?

Bicycles, pre-ww2 style small towns, mixed used zoning, and rail would all reduce car usage.

For example, allow building small general stores in residential areas like mine so people don't have to drive to the store for every little thing. Lots of minor improvements add up.

I'd be happy to answer any questions about reducing car usage.

In the US, moving away from cars is a decade+ project. The alternatives are bicycles, trams, ebikes, walking, trains, busses, and subways.

All of them require substantial zoning changes and a change in focus from transportation departments from car capacity to people capacity and safety.

Most people in the US can't feasibly not drive. A good start are things like my neighborhood. I live 1.5 from a shopping center with grocery store and other essentials, but have to drive there. It would be a minimal change and cost to connect a few neighborhood streets to the back of the shopping center or finish the sidewalk/bike trail that abruptly ends half way there.

Another good start is giving tax breaks for employers that do 32 hour work weeks or even 4 10 hour days to reduce driving.

Another idea is allow for small general stores in residential areas.

Another idea is HSR on easy routes like LA to Las Vegas.

Another idea is trams along long strips with lots of foot traffic like public beaches and Las Vegas boulevard.

Another is to add bollards in cities with bike lanes that are just painted lines on the road so people feel safer using them.

From my understanding, your transportation infrastructure is world class. There is a reason the Not Just Bikes guy uses it to show transportation done right.

I think they are barking up the wrong tree doing this in the Netherlands. As far as blocking traffic to protest cars, take a page out of the CIA sabotage manual. Perhaps hand out leaflets near the entrances and drive in a legal manner that causes traffic jams around where transportation planners work. Driving under the speed limit, waiting when lights turn, etc. There is no crime committed, but it has the same effect and targets those with the power to make changes.

I'm not opposed to more active protest, but I don't think drivers in the Netherlands are a good target.

Considering the Netherlands is the poster child for how to run a transportation system on Not Just Bikes, I think they are barking up the wrong tree. In places like the US, blocking roads will just cause more emissions from all the idling vehicles. I live in the US and can say with confidence that it wouldn't change much.

US transportation reform is a whole other thing. It will take at least a decade to undo all of our car dependency even with a large effort. The best the we can immediately do in the US is encourage telework, 4 day work weeks or longer and fewer shifts, and peer pressure people into not driving canyoneros and monster trucks unless they frequently drive off road or on dirt roads.

As far as the Dutch fossil fuel usage goes, since Europe has usable rail system, maybe protest air travel?

My suggestion is go for the biggest and most immediate bang for buck so to speak. Beef production is one of the worst contributors and the easiest to change. It is also generally more expensive than other proteins. Maybe start slipping leaflets into the beef sections of stores showing the staggering difference in GHG emissions AND cost. It can have immediate results too! We can collectively eat less beef right now.

Not that I am aware of.

Which group? What is wrong with Peter Singer?

ETA: They are using Altruism. The post is titled Activism.

"can we make one for ourselves?".

Yes. I run a small tech blog and work in tech, I have been putting together a plan to publish these kinds of guides.

I think your post gave me inspiration to start digging.

GREAT! The whole reason I post this stuff is to inspire action. I want my kids to have a future.

Let's use this community to start organizing.

In general, it's not car dependent

I envy that. If you haven't been to the US, outside of a small handful of cities, car ownership might as well be mandatory. Old small towns are walkable/bikeable, but you still need a car because they almost never have rail or bus connections.

I live about 2km from a grocery store. The only way to get there is a road with 80-90kph car traffic with no continuous sidewalk or shoulder. Based on life circumstances at the time, this location was the best choice at the time to minimize driving.

I've never been to France. How car dependent is it? Do people need or choose to drive? For those that need, why not ask to subsidize electric vehicles, the lesser evil?

Do you support climate policies such as ending car dependency, carbon taxes and, getting off of fossil fuels?

So you are saying the nature article is wrong because of voter turnout?

In a way, you are proving the articles point. Belief leads to action. GOP voters have a higher turnout because they think their vote matters. I think the left, particularly in red areas probably don't turn out to vote because they don't think it matters.

as well as the percent of Americans who supported each of the following climate policies: a carbon tax, a 100-percent renewable energy mandate for electricity, siting renewables on public lands, and a Green New Deal (GND). Each policy was shown given the same brief description as used in polling by the YPCCC

They did provide context. The above text was from the methods section. Maybe I am missing something?

THANK YOU! The "it's all the corporations" is what the corporations REALLY want people to believe because then people can buy the crap from them guilt free.

It is really quite simple. This is directed at the US. Car dependent design has to change. We have to eat leftovers. We need to eat a lot less beef. The cars we drive can't be canyoneros or monster trucks. Fast fashion has to stop. No more coal power. Stop building methane plants. We need to stop buying cheap throwaway crap. We need to rebuild our rail network and upgrade it to HSR. Get rid of methane in homes. If we do all that, our wallets will be fatter too.