"The bicycle is the slow death of the planet"

[Roy Rolling]

36. He's right

It’s all in the context. His planet is a candy store of resources to exploit for the enrichment of a few. In reality, resources are finite, they belong to us all, and exploitation is wrong. He lives in a dream world.

That dream world—the American dream—is unsustainable for everyone on the whole planet to participate. The whole world cannot be as wasteful and exploitive like American capitalists. That America will die without more bicyclists.

And with more bicyclists, new technologies for bicycle paths will be an economic thing, and other things related to a lifestyle of non-exploitation. The times, they are a-changin’.