Idealizing the past is common -- from Plato to Cicero to Vergil -- the distant past was golden when men were brave and women virtuous, and now, we're all cowards and whores.
Until just recently, in historical terms, the average human being lived in what is now described as "3rd world squalor."
Almost anytime you solve one problem you create another. Solve the problem of distance and you create environmental problems unknown of before the internal combustion engine. Solve the pollution problem, something else will pop up. It will the responsibility of future generations to solve that problem as it is our problem to solve the pollution problem caused by cars.
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Idealizing the past is common -- from Plato to Cicero to Vergil -- the distant past was golden when men were brave and women virtuous, and now, we're all cowards and whores. Until just recently, in historical terms, the average human being lived in what is now described as "3rd world squalor." Almost anytime you solve one problem you create another. Solve the problem of distance and you create environmental problems unknown of before the internal combustion engine. Solve the pollution problem, something else will pop up. It will the responsibility of future generations to solve that problem as it is our problem to solve the pollution problem caused by cars.
the US consumes about 20 million / day imports a little over 10 million do a google on "US Statistical Abstract"