Perspective
To Avoid Climate Disaster, Urban Transportation Must Change, Now
Cities have a key role to play in confronting climate change, and it starts with shared mobility—and taking back the streets from the private car.
Today, hundreds of thousands of students from over 100 countries are walking out of their schools to join a Global Climate Strike, part of a wave of youth protests around the world aimed at demanding immediate government response to the climate crisis. “I don’t want your hope,” said Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish student who initiated the movement, in her quiet, eloquent demand at Davos in January. “I want you to act. I want you to act as if you were in a crisis … as if the house were on fire. Because it is.”
The demand? That governments acknowledge the crisis, and move with commensurate speed and action.