a pickup and trailer runs a stop sign in west Seguin and almost runs over me & my bicycle
(this type of scary encounter of my harmless light bicycle vs. monstrous automobiles occurs once or twice a year in my current life … after 76-plus years of living and bicycling)
then the pickup driver has the stupid audacity to holler, “ride on the sidewalk, damnit”
i quickly shout back loudly, “this is my damn road too you durn ignorant pendejo!” …
and my system is totally filled with: road rage, an overload of testosterone and epinephrine, and increased blood pressure.
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you automobile riders, “anti-bicycle-laners,” and gun-lovers who want no regulations of these people-killers are going to get me killed soon with your vehicle, a shooting, or a myocardial infarction …
you are going to get me killed through your durn worshipping at the altar of growth, especially for more cars, more guns, and more cosumerism & Eaarth-stress through neoliberal capitaism
(“Eaarth,” or Earth in the anthropocene, from Bill McKibben, environmental activitist and prolific author)
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Let’s begin to rid ourselves, immediately, of most of these cars and much of this automobile driving. Use the roads as walking and bicycle trails (and of course for mass transport).
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And … for more “sustainability ‘meat & potatoes'” …
o Quit using disposable plastic bags (and other plastics)!!! Make some “permanent” bags from old clothing, and use them.
o Keep that air-conditioning system at 80 degrees or higher … or off. (You do know it is an energetic positive-feedback mechanism for global climate change and warming??? … You do remember learning of the Second Law of Thermodynamics?)
o Growth, the buying and selling of big conventionally air-conditioned homes, and other artificial development exacerbates climate changes and the destruction of the natural resource base. … Support ecological movement efforts at degrowth.
o Conventional agriculture does so very much to faciltiate climate change, destroy topsoil, quality air & water, photosynthesizers, and biodiversity, and the effective/sustainable transformation of daily solar energy. … Put your ecological justice efforts behind transition to low-input sustainable agriculture.
Truly, “Less Is More” (from Economic Anthropologist, Jason Hickel).
Live sharingly & caringly in solidarity through sustainable livelihoods.
Live sabiamente, simply, smally, slowly, steadfastly, sharingly, sustainably.
pbm
7 S’s/VV->^^
