The sole reason cities have bike lanes and recycling: the overlords' gravy train

David Harsanyi at The Federalist says that the relentlessness with which those pressing the utter fiction of "climate change" as resulted in survey results in which most post-Americans respond, "Sure, I think it's a problem." Yet they don't change their lifestyles in response to the exhortations to do so.
So the overlords impose a lot of the changes on us by fiat. Such is the case with bike lanes, recycling and post-normalcy light bulbs:

A few years back, Obama’s transportation secretary told me that America would be transformed by an explosion of people cycling to work and to school. “Like China?” I wondered, not facetiously. Well, in 1980, 0.05 percent of Americans biked to work. Today, 0.06 percent of people do, according to Pew—though, for some unfathomable reason, there has been an explosion of intrusive and impractical bike lanes across the country.

So it’s not surprising that the only way to pretend to make a difference is by government coercion. You have to laugh when Pew tells us that one of “the most dramatic shifts in recent years has been the rapid decline of the once-ubiquitous incandescent light bulb.” Well, gee, how do you think that happened? Since the regulatory phase-out of standard incandescent bulbs began in 2012, the residential light-bulb market has cratered only because the state believes it should dictate what innocuous household items Americans can buy and use in their own homes.
The other big, inspiring advance in environmentalism has been recycling, which is probably useless, but still compelled by many municipalities.

Expect more such tyranny when the overlords get home from this month's Paris confab.

They'll keep chipping away at our understanding of the real world, keep hammering their narrative that human advancement is evil into our heads.

Oil, coal and natural gas will be all around us, but increasingly difficult to extract and use to make human life more safe, convenient and comfortable.

Rise and repeat after the Most Equal Comrade: Advancement is bad. Gender is fluid. The West is winning the struggle against jihad, which has never been more than a mild annoyance.

That will be all for now, cattle-masses. The line for your daily gruel forms on the left.