energy and equity – ivan illich
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The car demands of those without a car that they behave according to the rules of its existence . – Wolfgang Sachs. Energy and Equity – Ivan Illich. Past a certain threshold of energy consumption, the transportation industry dictates the configuration of social space. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The car demands of those without a car that they behave according to the rules of its existence.
– Wolfgang Sachs
Energy and Equity– Ivan Illich
Past a certainthreshold of energyconsumption, thetransportation industry dictates theconfiguration of social space.
Beyond a criticalspeed, no one cansave time withoutforcing another to loseit.
Unchecked speed isexpensive, and progressively fewercan afford it.
Beyond a certainspeed, motorizedvehicles createremoteness whichthey alone can shrink.
[The bicycle] creates only those demandswhich it can also satisfy. Every increase inmotorized speed creates new demands onspace and time. The use of the bicycle is
self-limiting. – Illich, Energy & Equity
Ecology as Politics– Andre Gorz
Unlike the vacuum
cleaner, the radio, or
the bicycle, which
retain their use value
when everyone has
one, the car, like a
villa by the sea, is
only desirable and
useful insofar as the
masses don’t have one.
It is absurd to describe aplan that would massivelyredistribute resources fromdrivers, who have a higheraverage income, to transitriders, many of whom whohave very low incomes, asregressive.
"Equity" cannot be definedas everyone having achance to engage inbehavior that hasinherently inequitableimpacts.
– Amy Traub, Drum
Major Institute
We seek an environment in which mobility and community are no longer in conflict, in which they actually enhance and serve one another.
– George Bliss