The nostalgia coalition may say: this is about protecting jobs, autonomy, the countryside. But we must ask: what kind of countryside? Whose autonomy? Whose jobs? Because the carbon-intensive systems of the 20th century, roided up on public subsidies, were never sustainable, and they never delivered justice. They delivered a world of dispossession, biodiversity extinction, “a world on fire.” A suicidal nostalgia is more willing to watch the rivers run dry, the crops fail, the homes flood, than allow the possibility that another world is necessary or possible. Solar panels, public transport, bike lanes and smart municipal design are the agents of oppression, rather than necessary social adaptation.