How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town
How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town
Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.
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Based on an article by Spencer R. Scott P.h.D.: https://blog.usejournal.com/a-grand-theft-auto-industry-stole-our-streets-and-our-future-a2145d6e10e2
Supporting sources, documents, interviews, and articles in this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-SjpFrBjiEK2gHXzXv_6Ibof6rMwRzRzLuxfPY9OAm8
How GM beefed the electric car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNvvvVt_628
Read more about the streetcar conspiracy:
Car free street resources: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/category/issues-campaigns/car-free-streets/
https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/openstreets.shtml
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-17/san-francisco-s-market-street-car-ban-is-overdue
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Some reading to do:
The Merchants of Doubt: https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
All We Can Save: https://www.allwecansave.earth/
The Uninhabitable Earth: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate: https://thischangeseverything.org/book/
"People of color"? "Equity"?
Lol.
Not enough people talk about how terrible of a president Eisenhower was
When did we allow money aa a concept to be this powerful? More importantly, why the fuck to we believe in it? All it is used for is a tool to exactly control your poverty.
Love your videos! Would be interested in seeing the end of the video realized in your vision. Like how would a change in infrastructure look like? How can we adjust in the most efficient and quickest way? Like an extension of each of your videos; where you provide an idea of one solution or a host of solutions and how to implement them. I’d watch the hell out of that
Would be great to have you and Second Thought together on this.
Your videos are absolutely excellent! I’m a masters student studying art history and architectural history writing about suburbia and the current dystopia and the idea of the American dream
IMO this is climate towns best vid
I wonder how long the legend of Wilt Chamberlain persists. He’s what Babe Ruth is to the homerun for tapping ass.
im tired of climate homosexuals
Public transportation is great if you like living in a crowded city. But it is slow, and very limited in where it travels and when it travels. It seems like more of a “well it might be better “ for a select few
So my grandpa always told me that story about GM and Wilson, and when I would mention that to people I would be told it was lies. People didn’t want to believe it and instead fell their patriotic feelings with GM.
I’ve always hated America’s car dependency and didn’t think this rabbit whole could go any deeper – but here I am.
I love the recorder lol its so funny!
I want a boat. A sail boat some of the 1st means of transportation ever. Boats are cool. Maybe a row boat or a sail row boat for crossing oceans. That would be cool cross oceans in a row boat. Boats are awesome
The Green New Deal is nothing but CRAZY. Yeah, we will provide funding for those "unwilling to work". It was in the bill.
15:48’s delivery made me laugh aloud
I’m not mad at them for doing business the way they did, I’m mad at them for doing business. EAT THE RICH, REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH TO THE MASSES, ALL YOU HAVE TO LOSE IS YOUR CHAINS
There are many conflicting opinions about stocks and their prospects in the coming years; I aim for short-term solid gains from market corrections, and I would definitely hop on the ride if I knew a couple of things about day-trading, That is not on my speed right now i guess…. I’m just looking to make the right moves to help me grow and protect my $670,000 reserve from inflation that looks so scary.
12:59 dang, that hits hurt
I like the video except for the Why Don’t We Do It In The Road slander
That was the best patreon ad I’ve ever seen. "climate comedy"?!?
It’s kinda weird you didn’t mention in the 1930’s the car became a romantic symbol like a horse with outlaws like Bonnie and Clyde and effects of ww2 on the highway systems from a key reason why they were built and how they were designed. The highway systems were actually design to not only move troops quickly but be a defensive structure in of itself. The high ways were never straight and the department of war spend years designing them to be send through choke points to make it hard hostile forces to actually make progress on the highway. They are inefficient in actually traveling through the country by design.
0:47 not even a minute in and clicking like mad! YES!
Great video. I am car- light and cycle often so I am keenly aware of how intrusive cars have become . I live in a fast growing city and the downtown has already run out of space for parking and the streets can’t be widened more than they already are . Conspiracy theory nutjobs want to kill the whole bicycle infrastructure movement before citizens can get a taste of what decent bicycle infrastructure is .
this is the best youtube video i’ve ever seen. immaculate. bravo.
I’ve rewatched every single one of these, at least 3 times. They are nuanced, hilarious, informative, and motivate me to do something. You’re a rockstar!!!
And then abandoned America for cheaper manufacturing costs and better returns for shareholders.
2:45 they nhtsa updated their stats and it now says there were 58,137 fatalities in those years
I love seeing these videos and wondering how they never use "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" bits, since that is the whole premise of that movie…
I find it funny that Japan is one of the world’s great automobile-making countries, while having some of the most walkable cities and best public transport systems.
I guess a clever dealer never gets hooked on his own product…
The automotive industry is the devil. From the manufacturers purposely desiring vertical disintegration, to the car salesman screwing you over on his stupid little Foursquare, to getting absolutely annihilated in the service department. The automotive industry is run by a dirty lunch room of sociopathic money-grubbing weirdos. They hire these good honest hard-working people and pay them just enough money where they won’t self delete. I worked in sales for a short time and service for a very long time and it is a business that should be avoided at all costs. I’ve often thought that the toxic nature of the dealership ultimately came down to a cultural disease from their shaping of the country to fit their needs. This documentary details that perfectly. I love your YouTube channel, you calamitous climate comedian
So GM created a diorama which was so big they needed to create public transit so people could view it?
or how most big industry players keep you locked in and or locked down with the illusions of choice and quality/innovation just to keep your money and new competition at bay.
You expose some crazy (albeit openly known and available) info here. You dont hold yourself back by focusing on your point either. Instead, you frequently trojan horse your way into social justice propaganda also. Slick filming, creative cuts and catchy music lend an almost factual credence to your opinions. One might take away an idea that america was founded on corrupt and racist principals instead of seeing for themselves that humanity is actually what is built on these principals. You would have to be some kinda mongoloid jaythinker to believe all of this propaganda and corruption is not only no longer happening but isnt worse than its ever been in history. The CURRENT administration is literally filled with the “wrong” people being in charge of what they should not be. Wake up
As a former Ecoslobian, I sure appreciate your videos.
*You lost my support when you brought up the "green new deal."*
Making Government Beuaracrats the solution, isnt much too different than using Corporate Beuaracrats.
Not like theres much of a difference.
Is that statue (12:26) not even knee-ooed? What a big girl’s blouse disgrace.
BASED. I am subscribed.
This is a cool video but ignores the role of the automobile in the Cold War completely. Your dad might like to tell you Ronald Reagan defeated Communism but it was really General Motors.
What if we do it in the road, it being public transportation, let’s do it
radical!!!
for the most part WWII was a matter of controlling the auto industry, you had Ford vs VW, middle class to themselves vs affordability, maybe the wrong side won, think about it, unlimited speed limits on the motorways, affordable cars for all, and one major religion silenced.. if they were all silenced we could move on, religion has done enough damage to our world for us to want it wiped out.
C02, is plant food. if there’s a better choice, make a competitive alternative available first, before tearing what’s there down. Nobody would breath bad air given the choice, its sure to win anyway with this corporate sponsored, WEF backed agenda.
Damn, you’re good! Had a good laugh at 13:24, did not see it coming! Informative, incredible humour, what a genius you are sir. Much respect from Freiburg, southern town in Germany!
Diorama? That’s what Hitler did for his new world cleaned out vision- for him.
The ability to make this content entertaining and urgent is remarkable. Well done. Seriously, so impressed.
I live in Canada, and my city has decent public transport, but it is incredibly unreliable and often slow and crowded. This video really made me realize that that is in large part due to how far dependant we are.
This. This is based. Allied-up and not afraid of it? Motorcycles, but not for car-dependence?
Based
It takes me 7 seconds to hear a radical. Outlaw cars and we have the biggest depression in history. I study people and I’ll guess 75% of people when crossing the road, do not look at cars (unlike how I was taught).
If I had a dollar for every organization that existed years before i was alive that have completely hijacked and taken control of the life of myself and others id have enough money to afford rent.