Small acts of change
As an introvert, I'm not inclined to activism but I've come to find satisfaction in taking practical steps towards a better future for walking and cycling.
How we get around is fundamental to who we are, and who we want to be. Do we want to be a society whose communities are clogged with congestion and choked with pollution, where people are excluded from public spaces by the dominance of cars?
Or do we want to create places through which people of all ages and abilities can travel independently and safely? Do we want places that bring us together as humans, instead of isolating us inside machines?
In his 1973 essay 'The Social Ideology of the Motorcar', philosopher André Gorz imagined how the inhabitants of future towns might live: