There is a quiet revolution afoot and Government is not rising to the challenge

I wonder whether we are seeing the beginning of the end of cars, at least in cities. People have had enough of cars and planes and are starting to have a good time again without them. There has been no overt prompting from political leaders. Instead, of their own accord, some people are deciding to act differently. They do so for selfish reasons, not out of some hair-shirted environmental altruism. The most sustainable revolutions depend on selfish motives rather than a bleak sense of sacrifice.
My sense of the beginnings of a revolution is based on disparate conversations and my own lifestyle decisions. I have had too many conversations and taken too many decisions for these to be a coincidence. Admittedly there is a danger of assuming that anything that happens to you is somehow representative of broader trends. Still I take the risk and make the assumption. Something big is happening.

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