Introduction

Modern mobile lifestyles are unsustainable. In this chapter, we examine how they have come to be so deeply embedded in societies across the world that they are extremely hard to decarbonise. We set this against the already unfolding consequences and disastrous futures of climate change and ecological overshoot to understand the urgency of rapid and radical change. Taking a perspective inspired by the mobilities paradigm, we argue that changing mobilities is a matter of acknowledging that mobilities are social, material, and political practices that are always changing, that need to change, and, in fact, are changing in ways that make new forms and im|mobilities of good living or buen vivir a distinct possibility.