What your city does is neither here nor there. I am accustomed to the EU and the UK where you can get anywhere at anytime by bus or train. Even south Africa has a better public transport system than the USA.
I battled in California and in Texas. Boston was fine, but Boston and New York are exceptions.
America has done nothing to ban private car ownership. What little public transport has been implemented over the past 50 years is a joke. Have you looked at what China and Japan have?
Did you actually read my entire piece? Have you lived anywhere else in the world? Baby boomers are not only American. And you seem to be talking about your particular frame of reference to your life. Sorry, but it's not universal.
The point is that action should have started to be taken in 1970., and it wasn't. Boomers were the first generation where knowledge of climate change was in the public domain. Before that, it was only academics.
Electric cars should be removed from the roads. Their manufacture and dismantling cause just as much (if not more) damage to the earth. Have you looked at what is involved in making the batteries, and what happens when 4 billion cars have toxic batteries that need to be gotten rid of? Same thing as nuclear power stations. How much toxic waste do you think that the earth can endure/
I've left a link at the bottom at just how bad electric cars are for the environment.
I also mentioned the succeeding generations, as in this sentence, "Each succeeding generation after the boomers did away with more and more of the structures which supported communities until we are where we are today.."
Clearly you have a problem with the piece. Your objections are not based on what could have been achieved if the baby boomers had started when they needed to. Your standards of what must be achieved are not able to sort the problem. Even if we got rid of every bit of oil now, it would take 1000 years (according to NASA) to put the earth back to the climate before the Industrial Revolution.
This is what needs to be done, and if we had started half a century ago, it would have been achievable. Now it is not.
1. Ban all personal ownership of cars.
2. Implement state of the art public transport, reaching everywhere using bullet trains, airships (not planes),, buses, and cabs.
3. Make each country and city able to provide for itself locally. Stop importing and exporting.
4. Build vertical farms, using red light technology locally, so that all areas have their own food supplies.
5. Create 'maker districts' in each city, so that everybody can manufacture what they need locally.
In any event, we are not going to agree. I've been an environmentalist since 1970.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1011/1/012026#:
