Re: How about car-free cities?/ Liberer nos villes des autos?

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From: Dan Connelly
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:00

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Orval Fairbairn wrote:
> 
> In article <3742B7B6.B00CD09E@email.sps.mot.com>, ra6846@email.sps.mot.com
> wrote:
> > Suburben life is unhealthy to the Earth, and thus unhealthy to us all.
> >
> 
> City life is plain unhealthy! People realize this and are trying to make
> do as best they can.
> 
> When are the idealogues going to stop trying to force others to do your bidding?
> When are they going to propose solutions that everyone else has already
> rejected as undesireable?

The fundamental problem is suburben life is externality-rich, meaning
when I consider the cost-benefit tradeoffs of an action, the costs I consider
tend to be those which occur directly to me, but a substantial cost
is transferred to society.  These costs often aren't measured directly
in currency, but in congestion, pollution, wildlife destruction, noise,
resource depletion, etc.

On the other hand, there are fewer external benefits.

So folks in suburbia are living on a substantial subsidy.  And, unfortunately, much
of that subsidy is on the backs of future generations, who will be deprived
of the Earth we are so rapidly destroying.

Dan

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From: Dan Connelly <djconnel@flash.net>
Subject: Re: How about car-free cities?/ Liberer nos villes des autos?
Date: 1999/05/20
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