It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.

Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.