Don't Hate Donkeys

You have to find a political system where you can make the things that are environmentally destructive appropriately expensive. That's how governments have historically inhibited things that are dangerous to society. But then all of our political systems are so fundamentally undermined by lobbying and by corporations twisting politicians arms that there's no way they'll never do that. You like what I call world in which it's possible to get around at 30 miles an hour rather than on a donkey. What you hate donkeys? The invention of the car.

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