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My Comment To
The Conversation's Article on
Edition
Our new
government, typical of their "small government" attitude,
and because of the slowly-incoming need for even this richest nation
to start to introduce serious "austerity measures" akin to
those already in place in Eurape, and which have pretty much always
been in place in the "fight for your food" USA free market,
and forget the poor, is happy to drop subsidizing our "auto
industry".
However, unusual
for myself, I wholeheartedly agree!
The auto industry
is, and has never been "sustainable".
It, the motorcar,
has always been an unsustainable, thus governmentally, and thus
socially unaffordable bit of "bling" to thrill and juice or
idiotic egos.
The worst aspect
of this FACT, is that it is also the biggest factor in fucking the
ecology of the planet, what with the resources needing mining for
it's manufacture, then the fuel-oils, then the consumable pieces and
their resource-draining replacement, then there's the PLANNED
OBSOLESCENCE the major factor in their basically "evil"
existence [sorry], THEN, are we all so hypnotized by our motor to not
see it and thus act to reduce it? - THEN, there's the disgustingly
INefficient abuse and waste of the land areas we blithely give over
to their existence and noisy, polluting uses - THE STREETS, ROADS AND
HIGHWAYS.
[sorry again for
the emphatic emphasis]
However, need it
be said, the car's very existence takes up to ONE THIRD of our urban
space?
INefficiency writ
large!
I actually think
our major auto industry exec's and even a politician or 2 [amazing!],
are coming to see the "error of their roadways", and that
this, aside from the outrageously inefficient agricultural
industry/ies, is one of the most important fiscal and environmental
issues the whole species has to address?
Of course, as
cowards, we assume that "the auto industry is here to stay",
and so we appear to be typically slothful filth enough to ride our
autos to the end of the world.
The simple
reality of that, and most other large, especially multinational
industries, is that it has grown so large, relatively quickly, by
their forceful warlike marketing of the product, to appeal to our
stupid and selfish little thrill-seeker egos, so has had a grip on
all political parties and their politicians for so long, that they
can dictate the terms in regard to "JOBSJOBSJOBS",
employment of the masses - of the voters, almost all of whom, want
their own motor, with heaps of chrome and FAST! Et-stupid-cetera,
and, want the jobs the industry creates to afford one.
So, if, IF?
Reason has permeated the auto industry, with the REALITY SHOCK of
their unsustainability helping it along, then they are facing the
facts at last, getting passed their fanaticism of making more purely
for more making, etc., and all parties, polies and auto executives
included, or especially, are coming round to the fact that the
industry has to scale back, to some extent, and that blithe financing
by government is untenable.
Whether this
REALITY reaches the populace so deeply spellbound by the shiny shit
in the ads and in the NEOOW-EEE-OO car showrooms or not, is of curse,
another thing?
But the previous
governments have seen this coming for quite possibly 40 years or
more, but the massive profits the industry has extracted from the
anti-bicycle and anti-public transport sheep, and thus the economic
power to blackmail any government or politician into continue the
funding, and the threats by the industry heads to stomp any candidate
who might dare speak out against the motorcar culture, has kept them
all quiet as lambs, bleating instead about MORE JOBS et cetera.
An evil [sorry]
vicious cycle, and industry, which, as a species, we cannot grow
beyond soon enough!
If auto's are so
damned good, let them survive by being sustainable, efficient,
long-lasting, with NO PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE, for one?
There is no
Human, that-is Wise, Reason on earth why our motor vehicles cannot
last us one hundred years, each. Smash-ups not withstanding.
it goes on and
on, and we are being forced to face it, at last.
Let them fall.
Or.., start designing and making cars that are ecological, or
something...?
Like make them
with only TWO wheels, and pedals.... hahaha!
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DEFIANCE
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