Godst*d wrote: My 'barracks' has a nice BBQ and a green grassy yard, where I spend my evenings with my neighbours after BBQing dinner
You and your neighbors lie on your lawn after eating? Isn't that sort of boring? And what about all those lawn chemicals?
North America does not have alternatives to cars yet
I don't drive ever. I bike and take transit and walk, and I live in North America. So this lack of alternatives is lodged in your brain.
Public transportation is, generally, poorly planned and entirely insufficient for even inner city travel.
Car companies ruined what used to be fantastic mass transit before you were born. You were born with the garbage that car companies created. But mass transit remains the least expensive and most ecological means to get around, other than walking or biking. Which, by the way, I do far more off than taking transit, which I dislike almost as much as I dislike getting into private cars which are claustrophobic and feel like isolation tanks.
The populations cannot just file into the inner city and live there either, like you propose, since there is neither the capacity(housing) nor the transportation to allow it.
You don't seem to understand that urban is just suburban at a higher density. When you live closer together, walking, biking and shared transit become simple.
You're simply talking out your ass, Qatz.
It appears that my ass has studied more urbanism and ecology than your barbecue-charred fingertips have, Godst*d.
By the way,
this stage of your (our?) car addiction is somewhere between denial and bargaining.