Hello Citro
It is not a question of making all the consumers to this mode of consumption ... On the other hand it is a question of not staying without doing anything.
I did not say the contrary ! I am a utopian myself, but realistically so. I am known on this site to "promote" vegetarianism / veganism as
LA one and only global food solution in terms of ecology, economy, ethics and yet I am without illusion about the impact that it has on readers of this site (and elsewhere) of "our" philosophy. (Did you even feel it and have you adopted this different path?) Despite this observation of semi failure related to culture, inertia, gastronomic habits and low dietary, "I" (ie to say a minority having made an awareness and acting in this direction) does not sit idly by. I do not believe so in Santa Claus.
Ditto for the electric everything that may seem like an ideal, but which is confronted with technical and human problems, even assuming that this is the best solution.
Janic wrote:
It is not therefore to say that this is better or worse than that, they are two alternatives with each its advantages and disadvantages.
Let's be clear: we have to stop using vehicles to spread their waste (1m3 and 1kg of gas, vapors and particles every minute, not some ridiculous grams of CO2 as you are supposed to believe).
This is an opinion that I share completely! But again this is a typical urban problem, not national where non-urbanized areas are only slightly marked by thermal pollution and polluting discharges. It's a question of ratio!
That you make fun of it is understandable, but you breathe the junk of the vehicles that precede you ... I did not realize it myself before driving with the electricity ... It is unbearable ... Now Frequently I go to sleep when I am or cross a vehicle that is too polluting (because it smokes or stinks). Since I no longer take the ring road bottled daily, I no longer suffer drowsiness that fell on me every day during my only trips on the ring road ... amazing, no.
Again this is an opinion that I share completely. I lived, a long time ago now, in the suburbs of Paris and where, at each crossing, I held my breath to cross, until I realized that it was not the solution and why not stop breathe definitely. So I took my clicks and my clacs and I left this cloaca, failing to be able to change it and it was not limited to the only pollution of cars.
Janic wrote:
That said, we should not consider this in a self-starter (we!) But look to find out if this alternative is reliable on a global level with so-called emerging countries that are the future major consumers of goods of all kinds and therefore thermal or electrical well heard.
Mail must stop thinking binary !!! There is no alternative! There is a mode of displacement that must be abandoned and replaced by a whole range of more appropriate and efficient modes of travel depending on the situation, as in the last century, before the automobile landed and competed not only with the horse, but walking, cycling and even the train.
Ah, here we are brought back to the utopia of a better idealized world.
Yet the problem is more dependent on the development of these countries with large populations in the making to be big consumers of energy, too, as we have been and still are today.
The car has become the archetype of unique thinking to move, while it represents, in France and globally, only a tiny part of travel.
Certainly, but this tiny part is constantly increasing in emerging countries and directly related to the increase in the standard of living (as for the food and the hack!)
To the point that the French are unable to believe this truth: There are more people who travel to electricity each day in France and around the world than people who move to oil ...
Here again it is also the result of a policy towards the nuclear all to justify this mode of production by multiplying the user systems of this electricity which was only a "waste" resulting from the French atomic policy.
- The Metro in Ile de France and the SNCF transports every day 10 million people (not counting the other cities of France who have trams, subways, troleybus or electric buses).
and at the same time, our president considers only the closing of a single old power station because the lobbies of the all electric are very powerful, as much as the lobbies of the oil of elsewhere!
- In the world there are one billion people who take a lift every day ...
And as many obese among the haves! lifts are not legions in Africa, India, South America and other places where individuals do not have the financial means to afford these luxuries .... of urban always.
Janic wrote:
... an electrical substitution that may pose other problems such as the proliferation of nuclear or thermal plants whose danger is topical.
Another misconception.
The solution lies in the synchronized development of renewable energies, smart grids (SMART GRIDS) and the shared development of storage systems ...
Certainly, but in the meantime ...!? And it is not for tomorrow, nor after tomorrow either because otherwise it would be necessary to multiply by 10 or 100 the budgets which would be devoted to it. It is not only the type of energy that is concerned but the set of policies and thinking patterns of decision makers and users and it requires between 2 and 3 generations usually.