[PLUG-TALK] The Keith Effect - Lightbulb factories closing

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, alan wrote:
>> If cars ran on nothing, they'd still be ecologically catastrophic.
>
> As are bikes and every other form of transportation.

Uh, what?

I'm referring specifically to the paving of arable land, the leap-frog 
development that cars support and encourage, and the space they consume as 
people haul a minimobilehome around with them everywhere they go (and 
driving around in tanks of steel at high speed is certainly a hazard to 
all kinds of living things that want to move around nearby).

Isn't walking a form of transportation?

What's your argument, Alan?

And in addition to the way automobiles treat the land, there's the added 
social and physical deterioration they cause.  Driving isolates people 
from one another while they move about their days and encourages 
consumption leading to obesity as well as general laziness and apathy.

J.