Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability – Review
This not-too-long volume joins a story of the auto and oil industries with a thorough but eminently clear study of the modern condition of affairs, predictions for the future, and viable solutions. I quickly learned quite a mostly bit. The only quarrel I’d really have with the authors is their idea that a main amount of the solution can and will be a wholesale currently restructuring of suburban (i.e., non-Manhattan) society, with things like extensive bus rapid transit needing the area of private vehicles. I’ll believe it when I see it. In denser countries, perhaps. Not in the United States. I think technology will be the thing to get us out of this mess — technology and alternative fuels — and they devote plenty of ink to that, as well. Our modern country of affairs is not sustainable, and Sperling and Gordon (with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sympathetic foreword) show why not, and how we can make it so. Good for Oxford University Press for effectively putting this out. Very warmly recommended.