How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town
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Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.
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Based on an article by Spencer R. Scott P.h.D.: https://blog.usejournal.com/a-grand-theft-auto-industry-stole-our-streets-and-our-future-a2145d6e10e2
Supporting sources, documents, interviews, and articles in this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-SjpFrBjiEK2gHXzXv_6Ibof6rMwRzRzLuxfPY9OAm8
How GM beefed the electric car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNvvvVt_628
Read more about the streetcar conspiracy:
Car free street resources: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/category/issues-campaigns/car-free-streets/
https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/openstreets.shtml
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-17/san-francisco-s-market-street-car-ban-is-overdue
Some reading to do:
The Merchants of Doubt: https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
All We Can Save: https://www.allwecansave.earth/
The Uninhabitable Earth: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate: https://thischangeseverything.org/book/
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