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This board has opened my eyes.
I can no longer look at a parking lot without imagining all the multistory apartments and sidewalk accessible business that could there instead. Every time I look at a car I get sick to my stomach. Most of their existence is spent as a waste of space, even when being used for their intended purpose. They are an obstacle for every convenience that could be designed for a city, an undue burden that is creating islands of poverty situated inside the most productive landscapes of the modern world.
We work tirelessly to afford public housing and utilities for cars instead of people. We tear down rainforests to grow their fuel. They encourage isolationism, selfishness, anger — they are making us live shorter and more frustrated lives in the desolate wastelands we build as tributes. Our dedication to the worship of cars has destroyed our imagination, cities are created first and foremost for cars to get around as quickly and with as little warning as possible.
Our reckless pursuit of saving five minutes going to the grocery store has pushed them steadily farther away from us, isolated in the middle of constructed deserts, guarded by an endless stream of cars threatening anyone that would dare approach on foot or with a bicycle.
I am not afraid to say that I’m in favor of anti-car discrimination — we should tear up their parking lots, ban them from inner cities, and force any remainder to use electricity instead of gasoline.
