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TLDR: Watching Not Just Bike and other urbanist YouTube videos alone isn't going to do anything. We actually need to advocate for this in our local communities and city councils to get stuff done.

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[–] arymandias@feddit.de 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Very presumptuous to say he knows how systematic change actually happens. In the Netherlands public anger was definitely a factor, an extremist minority started a civil disobedience campaign that got the ball rolling.

A successful urbanist movement needs a healthy ecosystem of theories of change, with the hope that one (or a combination) of them is actually successful.

A good question to ask is: would NJB be more effective if he went into the nitty gritty of municipal politics with 0.1% the views instead of what he does now? I personally don’t think so.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would be better than tweeting to Americans to just give up.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago
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