Year In Review 2021: The Bad News
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It's time for our year-in-review. Let's get the bad news out of the way first.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate Change
Oregon DOT’s Real Climate Plan: Keep on Polluting
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The Oregon DOT’s “Climate Action Plan” claims the agency wants to decrease greenhouse gases, but its revenue projections show it is planning for gasoline consumption not to decline at all – meaning that carbon emissions don’t decline, either.
Study: Shifting to EVs Won’t Save Our Planet without Creating ‘Compact’ Cities
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“When we design our cities, we’ve been putting moving cars ahead of moving people,” said the head of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. “It doesn’t have to be that way.”
OPINION: Cars Are Killing Us
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We let their production dominate our economies without a thought of how private car ownership would affect our living spaces.
Report: We Need to Ditch Cars 40% Of The Time
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City residents must massively increase the percentage of journeys they take on public transportation and using active modes within 10 years if the world is going to meet its climate targets, a new report argues — but federal governments aren't stepping up to make it happen.
COP26 ‘Transport Day’ Ignores Everything But EVs
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The agenda for "transport day" at COP26 Glasgow is dominated almost entirely by electric cars. So, in other words, the planet is screwed.