Living in the US, I’m inclined to agree. Especially about our lack of public transportation. The cities, maybe, but I can’t see public transit really taking off until it’s shown to work in most of the country. For example, if every major US city had public transit people were satisfied with, then I could see it spreading down into smaller cities and towns. But how the country is set up, projects like that are expensive and time-consuming things that are frequently roadblocked, sabotaged, and targeted by propaganda. It’s the same with recycling: the nature of our country attempts to sabotage it, and eventually its supporters lose hope and the project loses steam. The dream for public transit, recycling, or any other progressive mission never dies, but I’ve seen limited progress on any of these projects outside of cities in the past 20 years.
Living in the US, I’m inclined to agree. Especially about our lack of public transportation. The cities, maybe, but I can’t see public transit really taking off until it’s shown to work in most of the country. For example, if every major US city had public transit people were satisfied with, then I could see it spreading down into smaller cities and towns. But how the country is set up, projects like that are expensive and time-consuming things that are frequently roadblocked, sabotaged, and targeted by propaganda. It’s the same with recycling: the nature of our country attempts to sabotage it, and eventually its supporters lose hope and the project loses steam. The dream for public transit, recycling, or any other progressive mission never dies, but I’ve seen limited progress on any of these projects outside of cities in the past 20 years.