No hell worse than cars

I picked up my son from work today, driving my “car”.

Why?

Because the air is so bad that it would be unhealthy to walk or cycle.

Bitter irony. The wildfires — caused by fossil-fool driving, flying, consuming — gave me no choice but to burn more fossil fuels. So I drive, only to cause more wildfires, more climate chaos.

Once in our car, temporarily sealed off from the world, my son says, “it feels like I’m cheating”.

“Everyone is cheating”, I replied. We’ve all been lured into a world where we’ve forgotten how to use our own legs, how to live in our own bodies, our own communities.

Instead we sit on our butts and press the gas pedal.

It’s killing us and our world.

There is a better way, a better life! Are we even looking?

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