sen-no-sen wrote:ENERC wrote:We will not replace these many cases of use with bicycles. It is the urbanism that must be rethought if we want to remove these mostly diesel cars that leave from 5h30 to avoid traffic jams.
Only if one considers the situation in a monolithic way.
The current system is based on energy mismanagement because of a guaranteed energy supply.
However, such situations can not be sustained for long and the scarcity should restore the balance.
Rethinking urban planning is simply not possible without such a prerequisite, so swim against the tide at the edge of Niagara Falls!
Bof ... The rarefaction is not for tomorrow ... It is not at all certain that I know it, and you either. Oil remains and especially gas for several decades (at least 5 or 6) and coal for several centuries. The issue of global warming will catch us well before fossil fuels are exhausted ... And it will remain nuclear, for the end of the centuries ...
I do not know if it is a mismanagement, what we are currently living, but it seems obvious to me that we will not return to walking or cycling in the 40-50 years; at most a few sores, on sunny days, and for unimportant distances.
The only future that I see credible, at least for the next few decades, is the use of energy that drastically limits climate impacts and a way of life that stops the demographic and economic runaway that we are experiencing; the task is already huge.