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3. I know. Lubricants from monoculture plants are also unsustainable and unnecessary.

I've had this argument about what "people need" or think they need many times. It's pretty amazing, when you consider it, since people lived perfectly useful lives 90 years ago, that people think that the car CULTure is more necessary than having air, water, and food.

The car CULTure is not sustainable, has never been sustainable, and never will be sustainable, and the bandaids of denial - electric cars, biofuels, hydrogen fuel cell cars - are just silly and delusional.

Here's my opinion of this "need:" It is yet another way that the people of my generation have chosen to destroy all opportunity for all following generations by lacking compassion, decency, and a modicum of altruism.

Our "needs" will look rather absurd to all future generations, given the conditions of the condign future we have left for them because of our Trumpian self-absorption.

There are two billion people on this planet who lack even primitive sanitation, right now. It's interesting that we need to get from here to there, where "there" clear does not include any place where we have to look at or think about these people. What do you think these people "need" more, a car or a toilet?

History will not forgive us, nor should it.