[sustran] Re: The Seven Simple Truths of Sustainable Mobility (Come argue with me)

[Enrique Rebolledo]

Great points, but I'm not sure this seven truths apply to all
countries, particularly when it comes to the following:

1. "Imported fossil fuels". many countries, and the industries they
rely on now, will be, at least partially, the promoters of innovative
methods to get the technology we need, being that based on fossil
fuels (imported or not) or renewable energy. Of course this has to be
taken into account with any changes in relative prices of transport
and ownership of transport means.

2. When talking with many stake holders and policy makers,
particularly in Latin America, their main concern is time saving, due
to the loss of productivity these countries experience in having
people to spend more than 4 hours in getting to work (back and forth).
Of course, the saved emissions are also important, but at this point
they are more on the political side, and don't really mobilize
decisions. Perhaps with credited NAMAs we could see a switch from this
in the future.

My two cents.

Enrique





On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Todd Edelman <edelman at greenidea.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 25/02/11 16:49, Ian Perry wrote:
>> [...]
>> Truth 3. Perhaps it should be added that happy citizens are not spending
>> time travelling, therefore rather than talk of distances (trains can cover
>> distances quickly), we should be talking about travel time (in all
>> conditions)?
> DISTANCE, yes.
>> Truth 6.             *We know all we need to know about both (a) the
>> [...]
>> *I'm with Todd on removing the "green" arguments from new mobility.  It is a
>> losing argument, there are parallels and these show us that 40 years from
>> now, if we continue to talk climate change, we will not have progressed...
> I DON'T THINK they should be removed -- just made as "also's". Local
> particulate emissions is something different than carbon emissions, and
> I think a lot of people are actually semi-believers in human-influenced
> climate change, so best not to push them too much.
>
> - T
>
> [...]
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