So tired of being called “selfish” for trying to save money and live a healthier life.
What a does a car give you? The ability to say, “I’ve drive the whole family to here and there”, but what does it ignore? The local fun, the local parks, the local spots to hangout and eat and have fun, the ability to take your family for a walk, go outside, enjoy the good days.
And I get called selfish, for wanting to be less wasteful, meanwhile driving causes spending thousands per year on just gas alone, to spew CO2 into the atmosphere, for the luxury of arriving at a parking lot 200km away from home just so we can boast about how much we do for others?
I’m just tired of it. And everyone I know is addicted or just so ingrained in motornormativity that I can’t even relate to anyone, outside one or two people. It sucks even more that I’ll be called a bad parent for not wanting my child to get roped into this mentality that the car is the saviour of humanity, that grants us some mystical ultimate freedom that can’t obtained by other means.
Ultimately a bike is still a source of pollution. While not a problem now, but scaling up would eventually lead to it being the biggest with of personal transit. Which has its advantages so we should be redesigning the bike starting with material choices. I think this would also give traditional wood workers and recycling programs a goal and a focus to help each other out.
I think this is an awesome grand idea, but I smoked 2 joints tonight so my opinion is legally(Allegedly!) sus