Posted on 08/21/2018 12:48:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If we want to solve climate change, there's no other option.
Germany was supposed to be a model for solving global warming. In 2007, the country’s government announced that it would reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the year 2020. This was the kind of bold, aggressive climate goal scientists said was needed in all developed countries. If Germany could do it, it would prove the target possible.
But with a little over a year left to go, despite dedicating $580 billion toward a low-carbon energy system, the country “is likely to fall short of its goals,” Bloomberg reported. And the reason for that may come down not to any elaborate solar industry plans, but something much simpler: cars.
Changing the way we power our homes and businesses is certainly important. But as Germany’s shortfall shows, the only way to achieve these necessary, aggressive emissions reductions to combat global warming is to overhaul the gas-powered automobile and the culture that surrounds it. The only question left is how to do it.
For Germany to meet emissions targets, “half of the people who now use their cars alone would have to switch to bicycles, public transport, or ride-sharing,” Heinrich Strößenreuther, a Berlin-based consultant for mobility [said].
“A new transport system that connects bicycles, buses, trains, and shared cars, all controlled by digital platforms that allow users to move from A to B in the fastest and cheapest way—but without their own car,” Schwägerl said.
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The goal is to end capitalism, end freedom.
True, there is no other device that can secure your freedom more than a gas powered automobile. Statists want to take that away. Be aware!
Pound sand up your poop-chute!
Thorium energy - the answer to all real and manufactured problems related to pollution and peak oil.
Clean, abundant, very cheap, safe, and it doesn’t produce weapons grade plutonium (much to the NeoCon’s chagrin).
At the very least, it will once and for all shut up these climate change/global warming hoaxters. Sick of their lies.
Oh, there’s another option . . .
Why don’t you liberals just off yourselves
SAVE THE PLANET
I’m sure there will be exceptions for the Honda Prius, the Honda Fit, the Suburu Forester and even the previous liberal wagon, the Volvo Station wagon...those will get a free pass.
...and it’s all going to run on unicorn farts.
All global warming kooks must be exterminated!
Science is not their friend.
Never was.
Never will be.
I agree wholeheartedly. Let’s go back to big V8s and pure power.
That may work in Europe with its much higher population density, but not in the USA with its large expanses of rural areas.
Ummm...that’s the Toyota Prius (although I get and agree with your point)
I’d love to see thorium go into real use.
Automobiles represent individual freedom.
Freedom of movement, just ask any teenager.
Freedom to leave a tyrannical government.
Freedom to emigrate to another place, like the Europeans did in the 19th century.
The elites want that stopped.
How can you have a One World Government if everybody can get up and leave?................
Leftists don't care about people who live in rural areas. If you don't live in a large city, you're less than a person.
I see lots of Teslas and lots of people driving the Toyota Prius Prime.
Often, they also have solar panels on roofs of their homes or buy ‘green energy’ from the utility.
The Toyota Prius Prime is probably the trend that will take off.
Check out the correction at the end.
I’m not taking advice from any statist New Republic writer who is too dumb to know that Chrysler is not a German car company.
That’s like the news reporter who once told us that the getaway car in a story was a black Bonneville Pontiac.
It wasn’t just a mistake, he said it twice and to make matters worse, he was a reporter in Detroit.
This is science today.
The libtards think they can “solve” “climate change”.
What bastardization and indoctrination has our “education” system turned into.
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