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I love in a larger city in Sweden with Well-functioning public transport and where they have made it more difficult to travel by car in much of the inner city. But still, there are so many cars going around! Hundreds and hundreds of cars, travelling the same routes everyday.

I'm starting to become frustrated with people around my age that keep moving to the suburbs; essentially making it mandatory for them to own cars for decades to come. One friend even moved to a another city about 50km away: he commutes by car from there. It is just insanity. I don't think we have the luxury for everyone to have their own cars anymore. We should stop selling them (both EV and ICE).

There is also such a disconnect between what people say and do. They'll do some recycling and eat a bit less meat and feel satisfied that they are helping. But at the same time, they go to work by car, fly between major cities, think that New Zealand would be a great vacation spot, and buy new phones, TVs and clothes as often as they can.

The "corona lifestyle", where people work from home, consume less and stop all international travel is a start. But if course, with this solution there would be a lot of economic hardship as well (as we can see now).

It feels a bit hopeless sometimes. Like we already lost, but we just haven't realized it yet.