Your premise is the same premise about car centric design, which is let’s throw really expensive. Long supply chain infrastructure into human daily life and think it’s good..

All the Engineering talent of the world is devoted to building out scale, which means long supply chains, which means energy intensity, and that scale that means burning the planet down or killing it otherwise

You need to take a little grief falling for the logical fallacy that it’s OK to kill human beings and wipe out entire ecosystems to extract aluminum and copper and what not to drop in replace the energy intensity of the global economy.

In the three US states where adobe can be used as a construction material. You can build houses that don’t need energy to remain comfortable year-round without any energy and with materials that are right under our feet

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I’d like to see that kind of outrage creating the same level of cultural change in the US over so many topics

I need this in German to show it to my relatives

Psst! The crisis is one of genocide & violent oppression. The oil hiccup is a byproduct of the atrocities committed by evil actors.

So - not really an oil crisis

After years of living in the city, I find myself fond of the slower paces life has to offer.

I find the quaintness of the countryside is quite charming. Theres nothing like having such a peaceful life you in turn need a break from the quiet, to find the blasting in your face city rustle and bustle a good mental reset, and social recharge.

Except maybe in New Jersey, which enacted laws which will reduce the number of eBikes in use. I just sold my eTrike I use for hauling groceries and other local errands and will be buying a non-motorized trike.
In general NJ is pretty good, but they're too heavy-handed in regulating eBikes.
https://thecyclistchoice.com/resources/new-jersey-ebike-laws/

I don't want the fascists to be the ones with a monopoly on nuclear