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Terra Firm no.07

Geocentrism and the Car


List of Contents
Acknowledgements.
Welcome to Terra Firm Issue 7
Introduction: A Note on Geocentrism


ONE: CARS, CATALYTIC CONVERTERS, CIGARETTES, AND THE EARTH.
i) Geocentrism.
ii) Catalytic Converters.
iii) The Car, and Tobacco, Industries.


TWO: GEOCENTRIC COMMENTS ON CAR WARS.
The Tories Loony Roads’ Programme.
The Shift in Public Opinion about Private Transport.
The Government’s Reconsideration of its Roads Programme.
A New Ally for the Government’s Roads’ Programme.
The Government’s Retreat over Its Roads Programme.
Reasons for the Retreat.
The Role of Civil Disobedience.
Success for Environmental Groups?
Diversions.


THREE: THE FAILURES OF THE OOMANIST CRITIQUES OF THE CAR.
i) Criticisms of the Traditional, Oomanistic Critiques of the Car.
I: The Mobility Costs of the Car.
II: The Liberation Costs of the Car.
III: The Social Costs of the Car.
IV: The Communal Costs of the Car.
V: The Rise of Autocracies.
VI: The Resource Costs of the Car.
VII: The Economic Costs of the Car.

ii) Criticisms of the New Oomanistic Critiques of the Car.
I: A Pleasure-Pain Critique of the Car.
II: The Sheer Extravagance of the Car.
III: The Car as a Class Issue.
IV: The Global Political Costs of the Car.
V: The Ooman Costs of the Car.

iii) The Failure of the Oomanistic Critiques of the Car.
I: The Failure of Oomanist Protests Against the Car.
II: The Necessity for Combatting Global Warming.
III: The Theoretical Inadequacies of Oomanist Critiques of the Car.

iv) A Geocentric Evaluation of Human Fatalities.
I: Domestic Accidents.
II: Poverty.
III: Alcoholism.
IV: Medicinal Massacres.
V: Meat Eating.
VI: Abortion.


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