Imagining a World Without Cars | Mobility & Capitalism

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In this video, we will explore how lethal cars came to dominate social space, through examining what Ivan Illich called the 'radical monopoly' of the motor car, and what a world might look like when that space is taken back. It draws heavily from Andre Gorz's essay The Social Ideology of the Motor Car.

0:00 Intro
0:10 The Social Ideology of the Motor Car
0:42 Car Harm: deaths and injuries
1:22 Ecological Cost
1:44 Why is the car treated like a sacred cow
3:50 Radical Monopoly
5:24 Illich Calculations
6:20 Sufficiency and Degrowth Solutions
8:22 Conclusion
Links and articles mentioned in this video:

Andre Gorz 'The Social Ideology of the Motor Car': https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-s...

Miner et al. 'Car Harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment': https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Degrowth & Strategy: How to bring about social-ecological transformation: https://mayflybooks.org/degrowth-stra...

Mobility and Transport chapter of Degrowth & Strategy: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

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Occupy Amsterdam? How Mass Protests of Cars Fostered Dutch Cycling Policy: https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/su...

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