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  1. Highway expansions and road widening
    How America (Australia) Can Break Its Highway Addiction

    "After a century of rampant roadbuilding, the U.S. highway network is ubiquitous, dominating the American landscape in bucolic rural settings as well as dense urban ones. Rather than being a tool for mobility, it has become a monument to an auto-centric lifestyle that fouls the air and depletes the public coffers. Neither the country nor the planet can afford to keep expanding it."

    "At the federal level, even asking questions about the collective climate impact of highway building appears verboten."
    >>
    slate.com/business/2024/08/con
    #Sprawl #roads #highways #expansion #cars #automobility #industry #asphalt #Motordom #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #NSW #CoffsHarbour #bellingen #GlenifferRoad

  2. Friday Video:
    How #America Got Hooked on #Cars

    #CNBC put together a solid 15-minute explainer on #car dependency that's perfect for sending to anyone who's never thought about the role of #automobility in their life.

    usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/14

  3. How Europe crashed its car industry
    Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

    "The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
    unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-
    #cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

  4. How Europe crashed its car industry
    Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

    "The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
    unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-
    #cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

  5. How Europe crashed its car industry
    Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

    "The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
    unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-
    #cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

  6. How Europe crashed its car industry
    Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

    "The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
    unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-
    #cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

  7. How Europe crashed its car industry
    Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

    "The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
    unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-
    #cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

  8. Australia's lack of fuel security

    "Our way of life
    depends upon cheaper oil and fuel coming from overseas, but it does so at the cost of our security and resilience...The thought of not having food in cupboards and fridges or prescription medicines would likely exercise people's minds a lot more than the ill-informed thoughts they had during COVID about toilet paper." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/aus

    Tangled up in oil in Petrotopia
    mastodon.au/@Bellingen/1137730
    #energy #vulnerabilities #fuel #FossilFuels #cars #oil #petroleum #fuel #mobility #dependency #EnergyDependency #Australia #infrastructure #automobility #roads #malls #highways #Petrotopia #PetroMelancholia #CarDependency #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #transformation #societies #MiddleEast #FuelSecurity #MSO #WayofLife

  9. Australia's lack of fuel security

    "Our way of life
    depends upon cheaper oil and fuel coming from overseas, but it does so at the cost of our security and resilience...The thought of not having food in cupboards and fridges or prescription medicines would likely exercise people's minds a lot more than the ill-informed thoughts they had during COVID about toilet paper." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/aus

    Tangled up in oil in Petrotopia
    mastodon.au/@Bellingen/1137730
    #energy #vulnerabilities #fuel #FossilFuels #cars #oil #petroleum #fuel #mobility #dependency #EnergyDependency #Australia #infrastructure #automobility #roads #malls #highways #Petrotopia #PetroMelancholia #CarDependency #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #transformation #societies #MiddleEast #FuelSecurity #MSO #WayofLife

  10. Tangled up in oil in Petrotopia

    Imagine life on an Island that has to import 91% of fuel from overseas.
    And the entire matrix of the place has been set up for oil dependency a century ago.

    Without a car there is no mobility (in Petrotopia)
    Without a car one can't get stuff (made /transported by fossil fuels)
    Without a car one can't get to work or other places
    Without a car one can't drop off the kids
    Without a car one can't empty the dogs
    Without a car one can't go for a walk
    Without a car /mower one can't do the endless lawns
    Without a car/ boat/ plane one can't re-create or have a holiday

    Australia is reliant on imports for around 91% of fuel consumption.
    australiainstitute.org.au/post

    Bondre, N. (2023). Petromobility and Energy Coloniality in Puerto Rico: Reading Luis Rafael Sánchez’s La Guaracha Del Macho Camacho. Green Letters, 27(2), 219–238. doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.
    #energy #FossilFuels #cars #oil #petroleum #fuel #mobility modernity #dependency #EnergyDependency #Australia #islands #infrastructure #automobility #roads #malls #highways #Petrotopia #PetroMelancholia #CarDependency #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #transformation #societies

  11. Declining reading rates in Australia

    Australians are reading less than other countries. They are buying and reading fewer books than people in many other countries. Why?
    Car dependency, sprawling suburbia and a public transport desert do not allow for a culture of reading (while commuting).
    >>
    theconversation.com/australian
    #books #reading #culture #cars #sprawl #commuting #mindsets #harm #automobility #PublicTransport #PublicHealth #MobilityDesign #FossilFuels #dependency

  12. Despite the widespread harm caused by #cars and #automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, and subsidising parking, electric cars, and resource extraction.

    One in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1 670 000 deaths per year.

    Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention. sciencedirect.com/science/arti

  13. The tyranny of automobility and sprawl

    While the Bellingen /Gleniffer area is transitioning from an ‘idyllic tourist town’ into a ‘normal Aussie suburb’ (of Coffs Harbour), road congestion gets everyone stuck in traffic.

    Car dependent motorists in their SUVs and bloated oversized trucks demand more and wider roads, larger car parking and a right to pothole-free roads for their 'sports utility vehicles’.

    Extreme commuting for the necessaries of life are conducted in big private vehicles powered by fossil fuel. An aggregate of ugly big-box stores (large format retail, Coffs) with hostile giant car parks deliver what consumers desire. These consumption hubs are mostly inaccessible to pedestrians and can be dangerous ‘non-places’ (Marc Augé).

    The mobility design of old school traffic engineers responds to the sprawling expansion with more of the same: more roads, wider roads and bypassing the last bypass. They call it ‘upgrades’.

    As the latest $2.2 billion highway or forest road ‘upgrade/s’ are blasting their way through the landscape, they are silent about the ‘public bads’: the destroyed biodiversity habitat, the downgraded neighbourhoods, the violence and the polluted biosphere.

    The ‘normality’ of automobility, or the 'car in the head' in petromodernity together with regulatory inertia make a transition to alternative land uses, energy systems, mobilities and ways of being a challenge.

    #sprawl #suburbia #mobility #cars #roads #JevonsParadox #externalities #automobility #pollution #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #FossilFuels #Petromodernity #GlenifferRoad #CoffsHarbour #Bellingen #SettlerSociety #liveability

  14. Transport within earth system boundaries

    "A sustainable mobility and transport system requires assessment of its impacts on climate, land, water, aerosols, amongst others, to ensure that it operates within safe and just boundaries."

    Within a finite ecospace "transport (road, rail, air, water) using fossil fuels needs to be phased out as soon as possible to avoid too much of a transgression of the 1.5 °C target."
    >>
    Gupta, J., Chen, Y. & Rammelt, C. Transport within earth system boundaries. npj. Sustain. Mobil. Transp. 1, 5 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s44333-024-000
    #FossilFuels #transport #pollution #EcoSpace #PlanetaryBoundaries #limits #climate #roads #cars #mobility #automobility #MobilityDesign

  15. Recycling toxic car tyres through the body and the environment

    When tyres are used, tiny particles of rubber are released and accumulate on road surfaces. These particles can be washed away by rainwater into storm drains, ultimately ending up in nearby water bodies such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.The particles contribute to a range of negative health impacts including heart, lung, developmental, reproductive, and cancer outcomes.

    Tyre wear particle (TWP) are generated by contact between tyre and road surface during driving, acceleration and braking.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tires are a complex source of pollutants including whole tires, particles, compounds, and chemicals. As they wear, tires emit pollutants via atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial pathways.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particle emissions have outweighed those from the exhaust and are potential for microplastic pollution.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.
    imperial.ac.uk/news/243333/pri
    #cars #roads #vehicles #EVs #speed #machinery #pollution #FossilFuels #microplastics #harm #regulation #automobility #TRWP #TWP #toxicology #ecotoxicity #PAH #water #runoff #waste #food #health #risk

  16. Recycling toxic car tyres through the body and the environment

    When tyres are used, tiny particles of rubber are released and accumulate on road surfaces. These particles can be washed away by rainwater into storm drains, ultimately ending up in nearby water bodies such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.The particles contribute to a range of negative health impacts including heart, lung, developmental, reproductive, and cancer outcomes.

    Tyre wear particle (TWP) are generated by contact between tyre and road surface during driving, acceleration and braking.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tires are a complex source of pollutants including whole tires, particles, compounds, and chemicals. As they wear, tires emit pollutants via atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial pathways.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particle emissions have outweighed those from the exhaust and are potential for microplastic pollution.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.
    imperial.ac.uk/news/243333/pri
    #cars #roads #vehicles #EVs #speed #machinery #pollution #FossilFuels #microplastics #harm #regulation #automobility #TRWP #TWP #toxicology #ecotoxicity #PAH #water #runoff #waste #food #health #risk

  17. Recycling toxic car tyres through the body and the environment

    When tyres are used, tiny particles of rubber are released and accumulate on road surfaces. These particles can be washed away by rainwater into storm drains, ultimately ending up in nearby water bodies such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.The particles contribute to a range of negative health impacts including heart, lung, developmental, reproductive, and cancer outcomes.

    Tyre wear particle (TWP) are generated by contact between tyre and road surface during driving, acceleration and braking.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tires are a complex source of pollutants including whole tires, particles, compounds, and chemicals. As they wear, tires emit pollutants via atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial pathways.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particle emissions have outweighed those from the exhaust and are potential for microplastic pollution.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.
    imperial.ac.uk/news/243333/pri
    #cars #roads #vehicles #EVs #speed #machinery #pollution #FossilFuels #microplastics #harm #regulation #automobility #TRWP #TWP #toxicology #ecotoxicity #PAH #water #runoff #waste #food #health #risk

  18. Recycling toxic car tyres through the body and the environment

    When tyres are used, tiny particles of rubber are released and accumulate on road surfaces. These particles can be washed away by rainwater into storm drains, ultimately ending up in nearby water bodies such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.The particles contribute to a range of negative health impacts including heart, lung, developmental, reproductive, and cancer outcomes.

    Tyre wear particle (TWP) are generated by contact between tyre and road surface during driving, acceleration and braking.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tires are a complex source of pollutants including whole tires, particles, compounds, and chemicals. As they wear, tires emit pollutants via atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial pathways.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particle emissions have outweighed those from the exhaust and are potential for microplastic pollution.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.
    imperial.ac.uk/news/243333/pri
    #cars #roads #vehicles #EVs #speed #machinery #pollution #FossilFuels #microplastics #harm #regulation #automobility #TRWP #TWP #toxicology #ecotoxicity #PAH #water #runoff #waste #food #health #risk

  19. Recycling toxic car tyres through the body and the environment

    When tyres are used, tiny particles of rubber are released and accumulate on road surfaces. These particles can be washed away by rainwater into storm drains, ultimately ending up in nearby water bodies such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.The particles contribute to a range of negative health impacts including heart, lung, developmental, reproductive, and cancer outcomes.

    Tyre wear particle (TWP) are generated by contact between tyre and road surface during driving, acceleration and braking.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tires are a complex source of pollutants including whole tires, particles, compounds, and chemicals. As they wear, tires emit pollutants via atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial pathways.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particle emissions have outweighed those from the exhaust and are potential for microplastic pollution.>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Tyre wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.
    imperial.ac.uk/news/243333/pri
    #cars #roads #vehicles #EVs #speed #machinery #pollution #FossilFuels #microplastics #harm #regulation #automobility #TRWP #TWP #toxicology #ecotoxicity #PAH #water #runoff #waste #food #health #risk

  20. How sound can boost beneficial soil microbes to heal nature

    By this, we mean barriers to protect ecosystems from potentially undesirable noises. For instance, we’re asking questions such as:

    do traffic and industrial noises harm the ecosystem?
    >>
    theconversation.com/the-biodiv
    #noise #vibration #pollution #roads #cars #trucks #loggingIndustry #ecosystems #soil #Biodiversity #FossilFuel #machinery #automobility

  21. 🚗 Curious about the true cost of our car-centric world? "Car Harm: A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment" dives deep into the impact on health, the environment, and more. Check it out here: t.co/mHUzduDg0C #sustainability #automobility

  22. "We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion

    "Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility.

    "While some people benefit from automobility, nearly everyone—whether or not they drive—is harmed by it.”

    A very comprehensive global review of automobility and its harms"

    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    #Cars #Automobility #Research #Violence #Inequality #Pollution

  23. C a r h a r m:
    A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment

    Abstract

    "Despite the widespread harm caused by cars and automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, and subsidising parking, electric cars, and resource extraction. This literature review synthesises the negative consequences of automobility, or car harm, which we have grouped into four categories:

    violence,
    ill health,
    social injustice, and
    environmental damage."

    "We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility."

    "Cars have exacerbated social inequities and damaged ecosystems in every global region, including in remote car-free places. While some people benefit from automobility, nearly everyone—whether or not they drive—is harmed by it. Slowing automobility's violence and pollution will be impracticable without the replacement of policies that encourage car harm with policies that reduce it. To that end, the paper briefly summarises interventions that are ready for implementation."
    >>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti
    #cars #harm #automobility #violence #MobilityDesign #externalities #SUVs #pollution #TrafficFatalities #PublicHealth #ecosystems #climate #BiodiversityCrisis #Bellingen #MasterPlan #parking #BellingenShire

  24. If our cars represent who we want to be, then what kind of a person does the Cybertruck represent?

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

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    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  25. If our cars represent who we want to be, then what kind of a person does the Cybertruck represent?

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  26. If our cars represent who we want to be, then what kind of a person does the Cybertruck represent?

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  27. If our cars represent who we want to be, then what kind of a person does the Cybertruck represent?

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  28. If our cars represent who we want to be, then what kind of a person does the Cybertruck represent?

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  29. Win or loose. 

    Conquer or be conquered. 

    Crush or be crushed.

    Kill. Or be killed.

    The messaging around the Cybertruck isn’t subtle.

    Who or what is it giving voice to?

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  30. Win or loose. 

    Conquer or be conquered. 

    Crush or be crushed.

    Kill. Or be killed.

    The messaging around the Cybertruck isn’t subtle.

    Who or what is it giving voice to?

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  31. Win or loose. 

    Conquer or be conquered. 

    Crush or be crushed.

    Kill. Or be killed.

    The messaging around the Cybertruck isn’t subtle.

    Who or what is it giving voice to?

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  32. On multiple fronts, the men of America are struggling with a crisis of masculinity.

    The Tesla Cybertruck will give some of those men something to rally around.

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

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    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  33. On multiple fronts, the men of America are struggling with a crisis of masculinity.

    The Tesla Cybertruck will give some of those men something to rally around.

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  34. On multiple fronts, the men of America are struggling with a crisis of masculinity.

    The Tesla Cybertruck will give some of those men something to rally around.

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  35. The nuances of the Tesla Cybertruck are numerous.

    It’s an incredible piece of technology.

    It’s a radical piece of design.

    And it’s a deeply controversial cultural artefact.

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck

  36. The nuances of the Tesla Cybertruck are numerous.

    It’s an incredible piece of technology.

    It’s a radical piece of design.

    And it’s a deeply controversial cultural artefact.

    Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/x1R772cKawE
    Stream or listen in your favourite podcast app: podcast.lookingout.io/2024109/

    ————————————————

    #automobilitygroup #lookingout #automotiveindustry #automotivedesign #designstrategy #automobility #design #culture #Podcast #Tesla #Cybertruck