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| 96 |
"The choices involved in personal transport are some of the most important in reducing energy consumption. Ivan Illich wrote almost twenty years ago that 'the average Amercian male devotes more than 1600 hours a year to his car. He sits in it while it goes and while it stands idling. He parks it and searches for it. He earns the money to put down on it and to meet the monthly installments. He works to pay for the petrol, tolls, insurance, taxes and tickets. He spends four of his sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering his resources for it.'" |
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| 96 |
"In 1907, the year before he became British Prime Minister, Asquith called the motor car 'a luxury which is apt to degenerate into a nuisance'." |
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| 99 |
"In 1990, 15 percent of the world's population bought 79 percent of the world's vehicles." |
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| 99-100 |
"In his apocalyptic tale Christopher Unborn, Carlos Fuentes described 'The mortal breath of three million motors endlessly vomiting puffs of pure posion, black halitosis, buses, taxis, trucks, and private cars, all contributing their flatulence to the extinction of trees, lungs, throats and eyes.'" |
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| 100 |
"In the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, where the population has tripled in the twenty years of his tenure, Mayor Jaime Lerner has guided an astonishing experiment in urban living. He says, 'we have simply forseen the problems of rapid urban growth', and in doing so the city planner of this remarkable development may have provided a model for sustainable development. Strict land-use zoning and growth of the city along predetermined axes have been central to the success, as has the installaiton of an effective public transport system. Priority lanes allow buses to run seperately from cars, and the mass transit system has been made as comfortable and convenient as possible. One inspiration was to solve some of the problems of the slums, or favelas, by offering food or bus tickets to their inhabitants in exchange for refuse. This helped to tackle the problem of waste collection in the narrow favela tracks, reducing water pollution and pest problems for the people living there, as well as improving resource flow to the poor sectors of the community and enabling them to save money on transport. These and other innovations have led to 1.3 million journeys - in a city of 1.6 million people - being taken on the mass transit system every day, 25 percent lower fuel use than in other Brazilian cities and, above all, a clean and liveable city." |
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| 101 |
"...the air industry is one of the fastest growing energy use sectors in the world. Civil aviation alone contributes approximately 3 percent of global carbon emissions and its total emission are rising by about 4 percent annually." |
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| 105 |
"Energy has, for too long, been associated with development and increased standard of living, and in the modern world, is tied up with the idea of national security. This has led to energy strategies that are driven from the supply side rather than by solid analysis of energy service needs. Per capita consumption of energy can no longer be regarded as an indication of 'modernity', but should be looked at within the context of global development and equity." |
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| 105 |
"At current rates of use, recoverable oil supplies are likely to last only for a further century, yet global annual oil consumption rose from 17 billion barrels in 1970 to 24 billion barrels in 1990. Both natural gas and coal consumption more than doubled over the same period." |
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| 106 |
"The lifetime of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is approximately 120 years, therefore coal burned in 1872, the year Angus Smith first published his theories on acid rain, was still having an impact as the nations at the 1990 World Climate Conference stated that stabilization of CO2 at 50 percent above pre-industrial levels by the middle of the next century would require a 'continuous worldwide reduction...by 1 to 2 percent per year, starting now.'" |
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| 106 |
"The new aim should be for the people of all nations to fall within a band of roughly equal per capita energy consumption which provides for an equitable and sustainable quality of life. This must allow for a growth in energy consumption in the developing countries, as energy use is radically reduced in industrialized nations, ultimately leading to convergence at a level which is within the earth's carrying capacity." |
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| 107 |
"On top of these technical changes must come lifestyle changes. Inevitably these will include a move away from use of the private car, change in buying habits, and even in choice of clothes. Just as health conscious eating requires a knowledge of the nutritional and calorie content of food, so will environmentally friendly shopping involve making choices informed by an understanding of the energy costs of purchases." |
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