Obsession with car sending us way of the DODO

The many recent environmental supplements in 'The Age' and its broad range of articles on the sustainability crisis are heartening. Efficiency and technical change, however, are the 'low-hanging fruit' of sustainability. Above looms the tree of social understanding that gives rise to the activities we're trying to make more efficient. Reconstructing it with an eye to sustainability will transform its fruits so that they are no longer unsustainable. This means exposing contradictions and misrepresentations that become apparent once we begin looking at the world through sustainability-sensitive lenses. Once identified, these contradictions can be changed. Here are a few examples from urban life. [Introduction]