A 2025 study found that going car-free is the most effective way for individuals to lower their carbon footprint. To reduce car dependency, cities should focus on raising awareness about the benefits of car-free living, supporting compact cities through policy, and investing in public transportation, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and shared mobility options.
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@davidho Cars are a disease, and our cities, countries and civilization must fight them, but continuing to frame this as "individual choice" and "raising awareness" and "personal carbon footprint" when it is now well known that "carbon footprint" was invented by BP's advertising agency in 2004 is somewhere between journalistic malpractice and intentional deception.
Collective problems do not have individual solutions. I can't spin up my share of a subway or bus route in the Libertarian utopia.
@davidho But if I go car free how can I pick Elon up from the airport when he flies over on his private jet?