Sure. I agree with all of that. But I live in a suburban sprawl of a US city that is just dense enough to have lots of cars, but nowhere near dense enough to have decent public transportation...unless we as a society decided to bulldoze this entire vast suburban landscape and start over with density as a goal. It's hot here too. Nobody is riding their bike 12 miles to work in 95⁰ weather (35⁰ for our metric homies).

Maybe within the next few years the Netherlands will let me and my family in as refugees so I can bike everywhere on a 72⁰ summer day.

But I like where your head's at. Hopefully you're young and can make a difference.