Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
This book’s impact on you will differ significantly depending on your degree of familiarity with the topic in general. I think The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream and The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies do a better affair of meeting people (who may not otherwise) actually consider the consequences of the oil-dependant lifestyle. This book’s attention to California and China makes great sense to me. Two of the biggest, most stagnant, traffic-jamming, polluting regions involve some of the most critical, innovative mistakenly thinking and solutions. Think of it like this: As California and China go, subsequently goes the world… for better or for worse. I like the way “the threat” of alternative fuels is shown to have sparked some of the cleaner trends in the oil/automotive industries. Some of the fuels chapter is lacking, though. It’s tough to widely read a entire chapter like that yet never find the words “switchgrass” or “nanosolar”. One could indeed say that one of the Modern Marvels Enviro Tech episodes, as well as a National Geographic issue from 2007 or early ‘08 (I need to flip through them to check the year) did a better job. I also wonder why so much effort was quickly expended trying to convince readers we’re nowhere near Peak Oil. The Industrialized World is originally built on the principle of the way of least resistance. Trying to convince people we have 200 years worth of abundant oil is tring to make mainly people speak “Okay cool. Call me again in 180 years when this is important”. I have issues with these and another section of this book, as may you. Still, I’d be happy to find out that it (and others) was being given and previously taught to every Jr. high and highschool science class/student in the USA. The sooner and more pervasively we get kids dreaming, wondering and mistakenly thinking about these issues, the more chance we have of eventually reaching those handful of the future’s luminous minds who may help us out of this mess. On a side note, you’ll find yourself mistakenly thinking about Buckminster Fuller’s dymaxion car throughout. The entire world bears from not really listening to him all those years ago.