You make some good and valid points but I do think you miss a really important issue.
It's impossible to quantify but a massive part of our economic security is based on all our desires for individual transport.
The building of roads and vehicles to fill them fostered a massive part of our industries, and not just here in the UK. Take away transport industry, all its support and related commerce, all the jobs both directly and indirectly and I, d guess you, ve lost 60% or more of businesses.
The car, and the desire for it, gave the most of the world a route out of poverty and into rampant capitalism. It certainly has its faults but that spiral of growth initiated by transport has for a century now kept most of us fed and in work. The car is much more central to modern civilisation than your posts suggest. Take it, and the desire for it, away and I, m not sure there is enough left to keep us all. The list of industries and commerce ultimately independant of it are precious few. We dispose of it at our peril.
Imagine cowboys without horses or Easyrider without a Harley. It wouldn't work.
Rightly or wrongly the civilisation we have grown into needs "the car" and not just for transport.
Only all true if we are to maintain our economy as you admit.
But as I've clearly shown, it is a false economy, founded upon credit which can no longer continue. We are heading towards a much poorer economy where we'll all have to get used to less, particularly for climate change reasons,
Also your objection has gone over the top with your estimate of 60% loss of businesses. I haven't in any way said we are getting rid of cars, I've only said there will eventually be a major reduction of them on our roads, maybe halving them eventually (30 to 40 years time).
Only a few of our cars are important for business anyway, vast numbers of them are second hand low mileage often only started once or twice a week. Half all the cars in my neighbourhood are like that, standing by the kerb day after day, week after week.
And EVs are bringing a large reduction in motor trade jobs anyway since there's so little to go wrong or replace and they will last so much longer.
You, indeed all my opposition in this issue, need to make more allowance for time. Our world has changed beyond recognition in the last 70 years. It will again in the next 70 years, but this time it it won't be the false progress we've been enjoying, throwing everything away to buy new, wrecking the planet in the process.
It will be about using very much less, making it last, recycling it. And travel and transport will play a reducing part out of necessity.
Don't believe me? Just remember we once had and ran the largest empire the world has ever known, all without the vast majority of us travelling at all. We had no engines, walked to our work or for shopping where we bought locally grown or made produce.
The trends back to that have already started in small ways, but perhaps you haven't been looking closely:
The huge expansion in farm shops and farm markets selling local produce and products.
Supermarkets shutting many of their large locations and increasingly opening local branches.
The equally large expansion in the numbers of small businesses making product and selling online. No HQs, no reps, no sale manager etc.
All the people working from home either full or part time, greatly reducing travel.
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