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Car Culture Is a Huge Impediment to Climate Action

It’s time we take back our streets for the betterment of people and the planet

Sean Youra
Climate Conscious
14 min readMar 28, 2022

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Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash

How we became a car-centered culture

Human civilization is increasingly being built to serve not humans, but cars.

Just in the U.S., there are over 4 million miles of roads and 276 million cars traversing those roads on a daily basis.

It didn’t always used to be this way though. Just look at New York in 1911.

So how did our cities change so drastically over the course of a few decades to resemble the urban landscapes of today where most of the space is devoted to cars?

The tale of Cincinnati’s transportation transformation is a similar tale to many American…

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Sean Youra
Sean Youra

Written by Sean Youra

Helping local governments decarbonize | Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Climate Conscious

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