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I have no interest in making “debunking” videos, but there’s one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I was literally forced to make this video. It's true: I had no other choice. My hands were drawn to the keyboard to write this script like they were possessed by the ghosts of people killed by cars.

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References & Further Reading

Downtown Houston, 1912
https://hdl.handle.net/1911/62636

Country size comparisons
https://www.thetruesize.com

Number of Vehicle Trips by Trip Distance
US Department of Transportation
https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicletrips

NHTS BRIEF November 2006
National Household Travel Survey Commuting for Life
https://nhts.ornl.gov/briefs/commutin...

Urban sprawl erodes rural lands
https://www.farmprogress.com/business...

Ontario loses 175 acres of farmland to urban development a day, says farmers group
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london...

[Netherlands] Agricultural export in 2021 in excess of 100 billion euros for the first time
https://www.wur.nl/en/researchresult...

Ray Hill’s Tunnel photograph (2019) by Michael Manoni
https://www.alltrails.com/members/mic...
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pe...

Why did Minneapolis tear down its biggest train station?
https://www.startribune.com/whydidm...

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:57 People don't know this stuff
1:42 The excuses begin
2:30 Most travel is local
3:41 Life is more than commuting
4:35 America was built for trains
5:40 Even intercity travel is regional
6:41 Conducteurs sans frontieres
7:45 Walkability can exist anywhere
8:34 It's all land use
10:43 Wrapping up
11:31 Try Nebula, it's great!
12:42 Patreon shoutout