We are destroying the world that made us, that evolved us, and we have no idea if we will have a home in the world that is now replacing it. The reason we are condemned to live in this different world is certain humans have the political power to maintain and increase the burning of fossil fuels. This is indeed the most important and sobering message in the rather melancholy documentary Bikes vs. Cars. It's not so much that automobiles are dangerous to pedestrians and bicyclists, or that cars cause psychological damage to those who spend hours in traffic snarls in Los Angeles, São Paulo, and Toronto (the main cities in the doc), but that their makers have successfully (meaning, politically) blocked the way to alternatives to their products and the form of energy they use (fossil fuels). CM

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