By Robert McLachlan
To address climate change, we need to phase out the burning of fossil fuels. The largest share of fossil fuels is burnt in cars and trucks. So it seems clear that fossil-fuelled vehicles need to stop being designed, made, imported, and driven. But anyone who has visited a road or seen a car ad recently knows that that isn’t happening, or, if it is, it’s happening so imperceptibly slowly as to hardly make a difference.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.planetaryecology.org/2020/12/15/we-still-need-to-talk-about-cars/