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What if bikes had been invented earlier?
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The bike industry doesn't want to destroy society the same way the car industry does, so this wouldn't have made any difference.
And it's a combination of lobbying by the oil/gas industry + the car industry that created an unstoppable force. Just look at the tens of millions the auto industry spends lobbying.