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Laddar... Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile (2000)av Katie Alvord
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Few books on the environment or energy issues, even on global warming, have the guts to launch a full frontal assault on the automobile. This author doesn't have any hang ups about that, being willing to come right out and say that a lot of our problems are directly traceable to our love affair with the private automobile. Ways to eliminate or cut down on the use of your car Favorite Quote: "...not driving simplified my life....I immediately noticed that I had cut my expenses and was saving money. I got more exercise, my health improved, and I dropped a few pounds without watching what I ate. My stress level went down and I slept better at night. And I felt great!" inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Alvord's perceptive gloss of the late, great, 20th century's pitiful auto intoxication is a fascinating read and a stunning contradiction of the fatuity that technology is neutral. Her gathering of stories illuminates the existence of a vital planet-wide, counter-car-culture. Witty, substantial and penetrating, Divorce Your Car! is a mighty persuasive job of work.?Stephanie Mills, from the Foreword Our romance with cars, begun with enthusiasm more than 100 years ago, has in fact become a very troubled entanglement. Today's relationship with the automobile inflicts upon us pollution, noise, congestion, sprawl, big expenses, injury, and even death. Yet we continue to live with cars at a growing cost to ourselves and the environment. What can people do about this souring affair? Divorce your car! Re-meet your feet, board a bike, take a train, pull out of this dysfunctional relationship with the automobile! Divorcing your car can take many forms, from simply using it less to not owning one at all. This practical guide shows how divorcing a car can be fun, healthy, money-saving, and helpful to the planet in the process. Most other transportation reform books emphasize long-range political and economic policy. Divorce Your Car! speaks less about policy and more about realistic actions that individuals can take now to reduce their car-dependence. It encourages readers to change their own driving behavior without waiting for broader social change, stressing that individual action can drive social change. Car-dependency is a serious problem, but Divorce Your Car! is leavened with love-affair and self-help analogies in the text as well as cartoon illustrations. From commuters crazed by congestion and soccer moms sick of chauffeuring, to environmentalists looking for auto alternatives?Divorce Your Car! provides all the reasons not to drive and the many alternative ways we can all get around without our cars. Table of Contents Introduction PART 1: LOVE'S BEEN BLIND: HOW WE ENDED UP MARRIED TO CARS 1: Falling Head Over Wheels: The Advent of Cars 2: Other Suitors Drop by the Wayside: The Decline of Non-Car Transport 3: The Possessive Auto Takes Over the Lands Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Alvord details a fascinating history of the car and how modern societies have accommodated them at the expense of other transport options and the health and wellbeing of citizens.
The author then shares options to reduce or eliminate dependence on the car, including walking, biking, car-sharing, public transport, etc.
Overall, a great book, though there was a bit too much number-data for me, and toward the end it started to feel a bit long-winded and repetitive.
Note: I was discouraged to read the constant comparison to marital divorce. The author is divorced herself and clearly views it as a good thing. I'm morally opposed to divorce, so those bits made me cringe. Getting rid of a car is not at all similar to divorcing a spouse, and the analogy served to cheapen the very serious severing of human relationships. ( )