Links tagged “transportation”
- Biden Advises Americans Who Can’t Afford Gasoline to Buy an Electric Car
- Business Insider mag: ‘Electric vehicles won’t save us — we need to get rid of cars completely’
Paris Marx writing in Business Insider: "Making transit available within a 10-minute walk of people's homes would not only encourage its use and create tens of millions of jobs, but could begin to transform our relationship to mobility. ... There was a moment during the pandemic where it felt that change was not only possible, but was happening in front of our very eyes. Streets were closed to vehicles so people had space to move, and temporary bike lanes were thrown up to encourage cycling. ...
We should seize this opportunity to challenge the past century of auto-oriented planning and emphasize walking, cycling, and transit use over driving. Not only would people's quality of life improve, but if we're serious about taking on the climate crisis, we need to significantly reduce the number of cars and SUVs on the road — regardless of what powers them."
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You Were Warned!
Flashback: Dem presidential candidate Andrew Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car Ownership – Suggests ‘constant roving fleet of electric cars’– “We might not own our own cars.”
- Nets Omit Hunter Biden’s Connection to Chinese-Owned Cobalt Mine, Electric Car Push
According to a report by The New York Times which found a firm connected to Hunter Biden secured such a mine for the Chinese, at the same time his father, President Joe Biden, was now forcing the United States to switch over to electric cars. ... “An investment firm where Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was a founding board member helped facilitate a Chinese company’s purchase from an American company of one of the world’s richest cobalt mines, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” reported Michael Forsythe, Eric Lipton and Dionne Searcey of The Times.
- UN climate summit COP26 ‘had carbon footprint TWICE as big as last conference’
Preliminary report finds 102,500 tonnes of CO2 was pumped into atmosphere due to Glasgow summit... compared to 51,101 from Madrid in 2019
Report states 102,500 tonnes of CO2 equivalent is due to be released by summit
Around 60% is from international flights taken by world and business leaders
Jeff Bezos led a 400-strong parade of private jets into Cop26 a fortnight ago
Findings come as conference nears the end of its second full week in Glasgow
- ‘It’s beyond a joke’: Climate BUST: UN tells delegates to watch summit online in their hotel rooms after they traveled thousands of miles to Scotland
"After expensive and difficult journeys to Glasgow, many delegates are excluded from negotiating rooms and can only watch an unreliable webcast...On both Monday and Tuesday, as world leaders spoke on stage, delegates were sent an alert to say the venue was nearing capacity and encourage them to work remotely." In a statement, Climate Action Network (CAN) said: “People who’ve invested time and resources to travel to Glasgow have waited patiently only to find there is ‘no room at the inn’ for civil society and told to ‘join events online’ – to then find they were offline.”
Other UN participants fumed: "Wait wait. The biggest negotiating room at #COP26 has space for 144 people. There are 197 Parties to the UNFCCC. Who thought that was going to work?"
Another wrote: "It’s beyond a joke - the #COP26 venue has now reached capacity. It’s like trying to get into a late night club - ‘sorry mate, it’s full’ ‘one in, one out’. The UK Govt should reimburse all the 1000s of people who paid ££ to come to Glasgow & sit in hotel rooms."
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- COP, PLOP, Flop: After traveling thousands of miles, UN tells climate attendees to stay in hotel rooms & watch summit online due to strict COVID protocols
"At Glasgow this month, the only good news is that heaps of private climate hysterics couldn’t make it because of all the new red tape and COVID protocols. The Guardian lugubriously reported that two-thirds of Indigenes, trade unionists and youth strikers from the Cop26 Coalition gave up on their Glasgow plans. ... The UN organisers , apologising, encouraged attendees to do just that: stay in their hotels and watch stuff on-line. It all makes sense, doesn’t it. ... The UK Government should reimburse all the thousands of people who paid to go to Glasgow and sit in hotel rooms.”
- Morano: ‘COP26 was full of elites sipping wine deciding how to make life miserable for us’
- Michael Shellenberger: ‘COP26 is a neo-feudal performance’ – Rips staggering arrogance of the green elites at UN climate summit
Shellenberger: "The elites are completely delusional. Emissions have declined by 26% in Europe and 22% in the US since 2005, thanks to the transition from coal to gas. Meanwhile, there is a global-energy crisis because of the renewables the climate activists have pushed for. At the same time, they have gathered all of the world’s douchebags in a single conference, flying them in on 400 private jets. You have to ask, are they really that tone deaf? Is this a kind of performance – are they performing their superiority in some neo-feudal way? Remember, feudalism was full of pageantry. There’s so much pageantry here – the self-celebration, the narcissism and the histrionics. ... All of this other garbage is just neo-feudalism. Those at COP are calling for more renewables, for energy to be made more expensive, while they fly around on private jets. They are saying that they follow a different set of rules to us."
- Watch: Al Gore flees after being confronted at UN climate summit about using 34 times the energy of average American – Gore refuses to answer
A Gore staffer tries to cover the camera and repeatedly says “We gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go we gotta go!”
Flashback 2017: Al Gore’s Home Energy Use ‘Surges up to 34 Times the National Average’ - Report: 'Gore guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years'
- COP 26 climate contrast: Poverty vs private jets
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UK Independent promotes ‘personal carbon quotas’ as ‘demonstrably do-able’ – ‘Every person in UK be given a monthly carbon budget to balance between heating, travel, energy & food’
UK Independent: "Your home, sometime in the next decade. You click the heating on and receive an app notification telling you how much of your carbon allowance you’ve used today. Outside in the drive, your car’s fuel is linked to the same account. In the fridge, the New Zealand lamb you’ve bought has cost not just pounds and pence but a chunk of this monthly emissions budget too. Welcome to the world of personal carbon allowances – a concept that is increasingly gaining traction among experts as a possible response to the climate crisis. Each month, it would see every person or household in the country given a limited emissions quota to spend on heating, energy, travel, food and possibly consumer goods. Those who wish to expend more could buy top-ups. Those who require less would be able to sell their left-overs back to the ‘grid’." ... Now, in the wake of Cop26, many feel the concept – radical, perhaps, but demonstrably do-able – has never been riper for consideration. So, could this be our future? ... “By establishing an equal monthly budget for everyone, you create a sense of a shared effort to address a shared problem,” says Fawcett.#Covid/Climate: "Enamoured by lockdown, the puritans wish for a perma-pandemic in which no-one, nowhere, will be happy"- Ron Clutz: "This all sounds like one’s entire life would be recorded and regulated and monitored and meddled with by politicians who’ll punish or praise, all in pursuit of a vague utopia."
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How the BBC is crushing the climate debate: BBC News is equating criticism of the green agenda with conspiracy theories and science denial
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Claim: It’s time to stop demonizing ‘invasive’ species: ‘Habitat shift’ is ‘a good thing’ – Climate change is forcing some animals to move. Don’t call them ‘invasives’
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Report: Climate Change Is Messing With the Smithsonian Collections – Due to climate change, the museums’ collections are ‘extremely vulnerable to flooding’
