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You say this like buying only from sustainable companies is something everyone can just decide to do, and there haven't been decades of lobbying and propaganda against policy that would make it possible at a collective level.
That's true, if you're in a wheelchair then I can see an argument for the necessity of cars. But if you have working legs, you don't really need a car.
I'm not gonna ride 50km round trip daily to work on my labour job. I mean i technically can and did with my ebike, but as someone with the lack of time, the time loss is really significant.
The thing about your opinion is, you're assuming everyone work 5km away from home, or can reach it just crossing the street, but the reality of what we're in now, is people often live far from their job because the rent is (significantly) cheaper, room is bigger, and they already have a car, and have near zero public transit availability. There's many lazy people who wouldn't walk 500m, but there's even more people who aren't given a chance to pick their mode of transport.
You live 50 kilometres from your workplace?? What a bunch of bourgeois decadence! Never in human history has that been a sustainable lifestyle choice, except when there was a railway. Other people pay the price for that luxury.
Round trip, that's 25km one way.
And i don't decide that. If i were to live near my workplace, house will cost 3 times more, and rent will be doubled than what i paid monthly for my house loan. If i have the money, i would definitely live in the city, but i don't. Not everyone born and live in a paradise where rent is cheap and public transport is everywhere you know.