{"id":1166,"date":"2019-11-14T13:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2019-11-14T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:28:13","slug":"prof-sophie-grace-chappell-on-how-and-why-to-be-car-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Sophie-Grace Chappell on How (and Why) to be Car Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Professor-Sophie-Grace-Chappell.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Professor-Sophie-Grace-Chappell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Car.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Car-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Car-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Car-624x458.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Car.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Sophie-Grace Chappell shares a prescient blast from the past: a piece from the Guardian from 1993, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/philosophynow.org\/issues\/8\/How_to_be_Car-Free\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/philosophynow.org');\">How to be Car Free<\/a>.&#8221; Shocking at the time. Less so now?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The idea that we should live car-free lives as far as possible is quite fashionable today. It was less fashionable in April 1993, when I published this in The Guardian. It subsequently got reprinted in Philosophy Now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Funny how one can literally forget having written something. Perhaps I forgot because at the time I was worried that my position was a bit extreme, afraid that coming across as a green ultra would not help me get a proper job. I was just a college lecturer when I wrote this&#8211;so it never went on my CV for job applications, for instance, which maybe is another reason why I forgot that I&#8217;d written it.<\/p>\n<p>So at the time I was partly embarrassed that I&#8217;d written this. I&#8217;m not in any way embarrassed now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With acknowledgements to Philosophy Now and The Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Sophie-Grace Chappell shares a prescient blast from the past: a piece from the Guardian from 1993, &#8220;How to be Car Free.&#8221; Shocking at the time. Less so now? The idea that we should live car-free lives as far as possible is quite fashionable today. It was less fashionable in April 1993, when I published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}