What if, instead of multiple networks of highways,
America was crisscrossed with lines of light rail?
And there were lovely terminals scattered everywhere,
and people could travel safely and comfortably,
south to north and east to west and back again,
in climate controlled modern rail cars?
Imagine the lives that wouldn't have been lost over the last 50 years to highway fatalities.
Wakanda!
The fictional city in the Black Panther movie,
where women were empowered equally to men
and developed technologies of peace.
A City outside of the greedy capitalist unsustainable consumer economy
that we have spread through the globe like a virus threatening our very existence.
A fictional utopia?
Yes.
But we are living in a real dystopia,
one that with a few different choices would improve exponentially.
This Earth really is a Paradise that we need to reclaim.