[wtfrmyinitials]

Cars could trigger destruction of cities, warns top horse-drawn carriage maker

[seoaeu]

Anyone who disagrees with me is a Luddite, says cryptocurrency peddler

[maxwell]

Automobiles did trigger the destruction of most cities.

[navane]

Whereas before cars, big cities were drowning in horse shit.

https://www.uu.nl/en/research/urban-futures-studio/initiativ...

[maxwell]

Manure is a valuable commodity. That was a logistics problem.

Now we're all suffocating in CO2 instead.

[wtfrmyinitials]

That’s why the comparison is apt. “Cars are were bad for cities” isn’t a remotely hot take, and yet nobody claims that the invention of the car was a net-negative for the world.

[maxwell]

I claim that automobiles have been a net-negative for the world.

You'd argue the rollout of automobiles has been a net-positive? By which metric(s)?