“[F]ighting for the world in a different form has almost disappeared. This is what Eric Swyngedouw addresses when he talks about fighting for the ‘impossible possibilities’.” (Freuendal-Pedersen)

To deal with climate change we have to strive for an utopia and believe in the ‘impossible possibilities’, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen states. In her article Re-conquering the lived city Malene Freudendal-Pedersen explains how there in our late modern everyday lives are so many opportunities and choices to take in order to make a good life for as well ourselves as for our climate. We don’t have the time and the energy to deal with all theses complex choices, and instead of becoming a fundament for the good life, the reflective life and the ambivalence paralyzes us. This is where utopia and communities comes into the picture, Freuendal-Pedersen argues. Not being able to cope with all these individualized questions creates a negative approach to climate, but instead we should use our abilities to get together in societies, where we can corporate about finding the best solutions and together dare to believe in the impossible possibilities and built an utopia. Utopias normally generate sociality and a hope, whereas our individualized lives generate fear and paralyzation.

"We have the right to re-make our cities creating and re-conquering spaces for lived life and, though it may bring about conflict, debate and discussion, this should all be welcomed. We have to fight taken for granted knowledge on what makes good (economic) sense, remembering that also politicians, planners and practitioners has an everyday life dependent on security, safety and hopes for the future." (Freuendal-Pedersen)

Once the ‘impossible impossibilities’ were free health care and education, which is now taken for granted (at least here in Scandinavia), today’s ‘impossible impossibilities’ are to claim for our rights to have cities where there is space for the lived life, where the cars doesn’t dominate the picture and the city’s planning and policy discourse.

Are no-cars and a city build on community structures the way to sustainable cities and a green life style? Or is it something else we need? An utopias is classically understood as something unreachable—is a city without cars and a life style build on communities realistic ‘impossible impossibilities’? Or are we just dreaming?