Climate change could create a whole new world order. And political brawls of the first order.
The European Union has put forward an ambitious report which seeks to ban gasoline and diesel fueled automobiles from cities by the year 2050 in a bid to reduce traffic congestion and drastically reduce the continent's carbon footprint. The blueprint also envisages an end to cheap holiday flights from Britain to southern Europe. It has a target: over 50 per cent of all journeys above 186 miles should be by rail. All core airports will have rail links.
In a statement reported by The Independent, EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas said the climate crisis has reached a point where we need radical solutions. "Curbing mobility is not an option; neither is business as usual. We can break the transport system's dependence on oil without sacrificing its efficiency and compromising mobility. It can be win-win."
Maybe, but some politicians will have hard time pushing that one through and the plan is likely to see all sorts of protests and political machinations. First out of the blocks is the Association of British Drivers which called the plan crazy. "I suggest that he goes and finds himself a space in the local mental asylum," said Hugh Bladon, a spokesman for the BDA told The Telegraph. "If he wants to bring everywhere to a grinding halt and to plunge us into a new dark age, he is on the right track. We have to keep things moving. The man is off his rocker."
Politically, this has zero chance of getting up. The climate change crisis will continue.
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