{"id":1092,"date":"2025-10-02T04:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/carcentauropolis-screwed-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:02:25","slug":"carcentauropolis-screwed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/global-green-economics\/carcentauropolis-screwed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Carcentauropolis Screwed The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left blog_post content view\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"Carcentauropolis Screwed the World\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n\t\t<!-- \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/mandrill\/subscription\/add\/6334\/7857\">Subscribe<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t -->\n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarcentauropolis Screwed the World<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubDate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/experts-and-authors\/register-richard\/\">Richard Register<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t26 May 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">&#8230;..That\u2019s pronounced CAR-cen-taur-OP-olis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">While I was living in Lost Angeles in the 1960s, lost in the smog, back when each breath seared your throat and lungs and hot tears rolled down your cheeks under dark mid-day skies, this European journalist came touring through town. He was writing an article about the city of car centaurs, the LA citizens that were half car and half person. \u201cTruly said,\u201d I said, \u201cthis here is Carcentauropolis, for sure.\u201d It was the city to coin the term, piecing together smoke and fog. It was the city of the future with its own PR department called Hollywood, leading the charge to super mobility, the envy of the world \u2013 and the world is still dreamily following. Carcentauropolis victorious!<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Also visiting town in those days was architect Paolo Soleri. He lined up lectures where he could and told us the paradoxical thing that the city of all these scattered little houses with front, side and back yards, plus their asphalt and cars, was the world\u2019s biggest and most wasteful infrastructure. The more compact city of apartments linked together in a three-dimensional community, compact and well arranged like a normal everyday complex higher living organism would mean far fewer pipes, wires, building materials and far less paving, gasoline and smog \u2013 that was the way to go. We\u2019d better pay attention and fix the city or we\u2019d be sorry!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">LA set what looked like reasonable goals at the time: clean air and healthy lungs. Who wouldn\u2019t think it a good idea, fun and profitable to sell the clean air lifestyle from skiing the nearby mountains to surfing under the sun and bright blue skies of balmy South Seas beaches right there on the mainland of the USA? So they did the most immediate thing they could think of and put a smog device on their cars. They fixed the car instead of fixing the city, and cleaned up their local air pollution problem about 95%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">And, forty-five years later, delivered to the world climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\nAnd now we have hundreds of offspring carcentauropolises spreading around the world, some like Beijing even bigger than LA and doing their best to best it at its own game. Said a young Chinese man to me last time I was there, \u201cWell, if I don\u2019t have a car how can I get a wife?\u201d<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/>The question now is will we ever get around to giving up on the car and finally fixing the city, the whole thing all at once? Or shall we ride Carcdentauropolis right over the cliff? 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