In the midst of the chaos, the mass murders, the political corruption, one party attempting to transform our democratic republic into an anocracy, the pandemic, and the crisis it has revealed in American healthcare, in the midst of all that, there is a very positive trend occurring that is not getting the attention it should. Humanity is leaving the carbon era. There are a number of aspects to this transition but, since this is a paper not a book, I am going to focus on just one aspect, arguably the most important component of this transition: the end of the internal combustion vehicle. Like Eisenhower’s creation of the interstate highway system, but even more dramatically, moving out of the carbon era is going to fundamentally change life and health in America and the world. According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, sales of internal combustion petroleum powered vehicle sales peaked in 2017 and have been in “permanent decline ever since.”1 Concurrently, sales of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (EV) have steadily increased. According to the Bloomberg report sales are projected […]
Greening transportation isn’t just about individual cars. America needs to address MASS transit, trains, etc. We began with this huge land mass and pioneers in conestoga wagons to claim homesteading properties. Part of the reason that the social fabric of America is torn, angry landscape is because to how isolated we are as a culture. Dialogues, connecting happens when we ‘meet’. We need a system change in how we think and come together. It’s definitely begun and I believe the Gen Z generation has a handle on this. The Internet has helped.