Transports: Searching for Alternative Fuels | SLICE EARTH

Fossil fuels have given the citizens of industrialised civilization a life that previously could only have been imagined by kings. We have had so much cheap energy to burn that we have fallen into routines of almost unbelievable waste. Our cars, homes, and factories typically waste more than half the energy they consume, even as our fuel reserves dry up and our atmosphere turns against us.
In theory, the solutions are simple: reforming our transport system, localising our supply lines and re-engineering our built environment. All over the world communities are embracing this transition - but it will take a truly global effort for that to solve our crisis.
Documentary: Spaceship Earth - Episode 4: The Passengers (2015)
Direction: Kevin McMahon
Production: NHK & Primitive Entertainment for Alliant Atlantis and Arte
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[@gr8bkset-524]

Every weekday North Americans commute an average 40 miles to work. Aliens looking down from space would ask "Why we burn fossil fuels mainly to move 4000 lbs of metal without any net movement?". Furthermore, car ownership enable sprawl, low density development, especially of single family homes. On the Coasts of the US this sprawl resulted in not enough housing to meet demand so prices skyrocket. The two biggest costs for Americans, car ownership $50k and housing, result in many not having enough saved for a $500 emergency. Those same aliens would see spaces surrounding the places we work that are occupied only when we are at work and ask "Why not convert those spaces to dense affordable housing for those that work there and eliminate the car, the commute and burning of fossil fuels?".

[@adamcheklat7387]

I hear ya. I’m even planning on becoming North America’s emperor to clean up this mess.
Some of my policies would be phasing out parking minimums and single-family zoning laws, building up public transit in all our cities, cooking up an SCMaglev network to link sea to shining sea and by financially wringing all those oil giants for lousing up the planet. Like what Vermont just did. I’ll even have those new trams and trains made out of recycled gas-guzzlers.
It sounds Bonapartist and it won’t be easy, but with a big job like that, i gotta bring out the big stuff.

[@sandponics]

We should all stay at home, then we would not use any energy for transport.

[@graemetunbridge1738]

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