Reply #52: Driving is not a civil liberty [View All]

[eviltwin2525]

It's a privilege, straight up. Even the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled this, explicitly (sorry, I don't know the case name/number; anybody?). But this privilege has been the subject of the most successful marketing ploy ever to make an entire nation BELIEVE it is a right.
The best-case scenario would be for the looming catastrophe to knock down the human population so far and so fast that it would break the chain of causality before the Venusian runaway model takes hold. I do not hold much hope for this fortuitous outcome, I merely mention it as a possibility, as we are entering completely uncharted territory here. The good news, if there is any, is that a non-greenhouse world with a human population of about half a billion could be a wonderful thing.