"People are entitled to object to Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, but the hard-right politics that has crossed the Atlantic tells some people that they no longer need respect the facts, no longer need to listen to others, no longer need to reason or debate. They need only assert, threaten and attack. This new barbarism, combined with the lethal ways in which driving changes us, encourages the worst tendencies and the worst people to come to the fore. We must defend our communities, street by street."
George Monbiot. https://www.monbiot.com/2022/08/10/streetlife/
Call out thugs, bullies and dictatorships when you see them in your neighbourhood. Name them for who they are and name the systems that elevate them. They want to dismiss the pain of the sensitive soul, ridicule the thoughtful comments of people who have been raised to believe they live in a democracy.
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