The solution you mention includes millions starving to death.

I wish we had better options, but you can’t enact change on a system until you’ve secured your own survival.

Owning a car does not secure your survival, quite the opposite effect in most cases actually.

Perfect, you’ve now successfully created a car-dependent society. Deaths by auto accident have skyrocketed, your people are constantly road-raging for some unforeseen reason, and your air quality sucks. But muh freedumbs.