Lars Wilderäng is a Swedish author and blogger. Quick overview: his topics generally revolve around defence policies (Russia bad, moar defence), economics (low interest rates bad, housing market speculation bad) and since the war started, the war in Ukraine (send Ukraine moar weapons). He hates Elon Musk but loves his Tesla. He hates ICE cars.

He’s unfortunately one of the “EVs will solve everything” people, which annoys me greatly, but today I saw a small car-related comment on his blog that actually made me laugh.

Oh and sorry for the misspelled “cyclists”.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah I totally agree.

    I think about this a lot for obvious reasons, especially the, as you put it, “road bad once a year” mentality. I think it’s part of this underlying capitalist pathology that we must continue to be productive no matter the weather or physical conditions. It’s as if the economy is more real than the world being covered by a foot of snow, which is an inconvenience that we must overcome, rather than a reality that we should accept, and maybe stay off the roads for the day if we can. People shouldn’t have to drive to their fucking office and retail jobs when it’s shitty out, nor should they expect the world to be fully open for business. We have this underlying assumption that we are above nature instead of a part of it. It is this extraneous thing that we have the duty and the right to overcome anytime no matter what, so we buy this giant F150 man-van, which not coincidentally contributes to the destruction of nature, because we shouldn’t be inconvenienced by nature ever

    Also, not a good pic, but here’s the calf in the car!