People around the world are demanding clean air — and cities are starting to respond, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. She takes us on a world tour of urban areas that are working to fully electrify their transportation systems over the next decade, shifting to emission-free motorcycles, cars, buses, ferries and beyond. See what a future without the internal combustion engine could look like — and what it will take to get there.
Monica Araya: How cities are detoxing transportation
Attribution: Dave Dougherty
Poster's Comment
Unbelievable how far behind our Canadian cities are… and it is literally killing us. This is not just about climate change, it is about lung and heart health.
Monica’s academic degrees are as follows —
National University of Costa Rica – Economic policy
+ Bachelor’s Degree in Economics -School of Economics
+ Master’s Degree in Economic Policy (M.Sc.) – Center for International Economic Policy
Yale University – Environmental management & policy
+ Master’s Degree (M.E.M.), Yale Environment School
+ Doctorate Degree (Ph.D.), Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
I don’t see how these degrees qualify Monica to advocate the “full electrification of transportation systems over the next decade, shifting to emission-free motorcycles, cars, buses, ferries and beyond.”
Physicists (e.g. Tom Murphy, who blogs at Do the Math) and scientists in related hard science fields have done the math and found that EVs will not be our salvation.