I would like to share the developments, contributions of people joining in Transition Movement in India that has been launched by Labour League Foundation,Sewa, Sufi Trust and other organisations for preparing for the end of petro-modern age and minimising suffering in the urban regions as a result of the loss of livelihoods after the exhaustion of fossil fuels.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Getting Rid of the Fascination of Energy Intensive Personal Transport
It is strange that mouting evidences on climate change are not getting response in the form of decelerating the consumption of energy intensive personal transport in the urban areas. This can be seen in the form of expansion of ecologically hostile urban habitats such as skyscraper laden townships. Builders and developers keep on advertising their townships without realising whether these township would have sustained supply of energy for all in say 2000 years from now. An article today in The Times of India ( 16 September,2009) is positive about the battery operated electric cars and these cars are being presented as 'Green'. Indeed, they are Green to some extent compared to the emissions that are getting generated from the fossil fuel driven vehicle. Still the moot question that remains is about the sustainability of the supplies for these cars. If the humanity does not have gurunteed renewable energy for these cars then what is the use of these cars as an ideal for transportation. Considering the fact that we would have sustainend resources , it is better to avoid personal ownership of energy intensive transport vehicles. Ecostrategic communicators are discussing the measures for transforming ecologically hostile leisure into carbon-neutral modes based in the neighbourhoods.
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