Motor vehicles that use fossil fuels provide the majority of private transportation in all industrial countries. Even electric vehicles are indirectly dependent on fossil fuels. Besides the obvious issues of global warming and pollution, the cost of fuel for the average motorist can only continue to rise. Fossil fuels are both a finite planetary resource and also highly dependent on political and market vagaries.

The industrial world is trapped in a destructive culture that glorifies and prioritizes motor vehicles of excessive size, power, and resource consumption. Vehicles that isolate their occupants from both nature and fellow travelers.

We need a new “Power Down” culture that fosters laws, regulations, and infrastructure to reverse the self-destructive “Car Culture”.

Previously, this website offered evidence supporting the idea of Ecological Overshoot. This revision assumes readers already understand the science of Ecological Overshoot. However, its definition can be found here, and an in-depth exploration and discussion can be found here

As BikeX is a bicycle advocacy website, the current focus will be on practical ways cycling can help people adapt to the unavoidable consequences of this overshoot.