National Observer, August 16, 2021. The main takeaway of this article can be inferred directly from its heading. We now know that human-generated carbon emissions are a major cause of our current climate changes. We also understand that automobile emissions are a major contributor to our carbon footprint and that many of those emissions emanate from urban areas where automobile use is densest. So it makes good sense that finding ways to reduce use of automobile in cities is prudent. All very straightforward. Not much that’s new in that. The real takeaway is that Vancouver is considering doing something that “no North American city has done so far.” The article’s focus on congestion may not be an exact fit to Nanaimo, but if any of us are going to make it through the various crises we are now facing, we will all need to do things that we and others have never done before. Because the things we have done to date are the very things that have created the crises we now face. Vancouver’s example is important because it considers changing the problematic approaches of the past. [ARTICLE LINK]