Cars have been at the center of western urban planning for many decades. This crisis is a recent development. And it happened in partbecause we’ve STOPPED building freeways, suburbs, and in general neighborhoods people want. Instead we build giant fortress style apartments and crowded “condos” that no one wants to live on if they can avoid it, driving the existing single family home prices through the roof. It’s not car culture that’s killing is, it’s mythical thinking about what actual influence climate doomerism and squealing about NIMBYs has on the electorate.