In Bangkok for a short spell, I find myself frequently looking out the window of my hotel to watch the traffic moving slowly down the narrow soi (lane). There are taxis, passenger cars, tuk-tuks and motorcycles, a surprising number of vans and SUVs, vendors pushing carts loaded with rambutan, people riding bicycles, and [...]
Cars have proven to be a very efficient way to burn oil in a very short time while heavily polluting earth and water for its extraction, and the air by combustion. Now that oil extraction is peaking (or about to peak, according to sources), car addicts look desperately for new ways to power their iron [...]
“Is there anyone who does not want a car?”
This was the banner beside a new car displayed at the entrance of the old town pedestrian area of Santiago de Compostela last Christmas. This small city in the northwest of Spain has one hundred thousand inhabitants. It also has one hundred thousand cars entering the city [...]
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