Tony Dutzik
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We Can Do It: A Zero-Carbon Transportation System Is Possible
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Cross-posted from the Frontier Group.
The Paris Climate Agreement, approved by world leaders last December, represented a bold commitment to prevent the worst impacts of global warming – a commitment that must now be followed by action.
Meeting the agreement’s target of limiting global warming to no more than 2° C (and ideally no more than 1.5° [...]
Choose Your Own Utopia: What Will We Make of Driverless Cars?
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Cross-posted from the Frontier Group.
A century ago, a new transportation technology burst onto the scene that threatened to disrupt everything: the car.
Thinkers of the day, along with boosters of the new technology, dreamed grand dreams of the utopia it would bring. General Motors’ Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair (shown in the amazing 1940 promotional [...]