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The eco-advocates want cars, too, and all the prerogatives (like free parking and country living) that go with them, just like the WalMart shoppers. If this were not so, then why do the eco-advocates cream in their jeans whenever somebody presents a snazzy new vehicle that runs on a fuel other than gasoline? Indeed, why are some of the eco-friendly pouring all their efforts into the invention of such things instead of into walkable communities and the reform of our stupid land-use laws?
Because they see the first part of your complaint — solutions that fit into the way we live now — as a transitional step to the way we used to live and perhaps will again. Not all of us are writers without kids and their attendant school functions, athletic endeavors, etc. It’s all very well to post these weekly jeremiads but if you admit the changes that need to be made are deeply systemic and therefor difficult, why sneer at people who are taking steps, no matter how small (in your jaundiced view) they may be?