Perhaps this certainty is still not passed. Or you will be ignored or at least not taken seriously. In any case, in climate protection, the time factor plays a decisive role. The longer it takes for politicians and society to take effective counter-measures, the more complex and expensive it tends to be, to cope with the consequences of climate change. to accelerate
But instead of the pace in climate policy, the press in this country prefer to be real on the accelerator, preferably in a high-horsepower 4×4 car, as new Figures from the car industry show. Every second new car in Switzerland last year was such a – usually very CO2-heavy vehicle, almost 150’000 of them came. In contrast, only slightly more than 5000 pure electric curved one cars on the streets. The discrepancy is so great as it is disquieting: The car-Switzerland petrol loves so dearly as ever, only very tentatively, a minority to saddle up on electricity.
The reasons for this are complex. What has been proven is not without Hardship in the rule. This is even less if the infrastructure for the Alternative is not available. So, the E-fuel’s network is still full of holes. And it is only right to hold on to something if the Alternative is not itself beyond all doubt. Although E-vehicles are in their promoters as the only possible solution for a clean mobility. But they are only relatively clean. The balance sheet adjustments that do not measure only the emissions during operation, but the entire environmental impact, including the production of the E-car batteries. As expected, charge electric cars, the environment less than petrol or diesel cars, but still substantial, as the new environmental report of the Federal Council shows.
On endless growth, is ecologically devastating.
The unpleasant facts. In the worst case, you serve the fossil car-Switzerland as a powerful, if also ecologically incorrect Argument against E-mobility. In the better case, but you can’t expand the debate: climate protection in the traffic stop with the engine type. Every car needs roads, each track rails. How to respond to Switzerland on the ever-growing traffic? With the construction of new infrastructure that consumes energy and resources, and more traffic is generated? To set on endless growth is environmentally destructive. Nevertheless, the professionals have proposed at the Federal office for roads (Astra) last year to build two-storey highways or to widen lanes.
another project by the meanwhile, in the Astra then: Mobility Pricing. Anyone who drives a lot, and on popular routes at attractive times, should pay more – an approach with potential, but as anti-social commuters penalty decried. The now-resigned Minister of the environment Leuthard (CVP) has understood the business as well as criminal task. It is now on its successor, Simonetta Sommaruga (SP), the transport policy with intelligent suggestions. Time is of the essence. The traffic is the largest construction site of the Swiss climate policy.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 05.01.2019, 08:11 PM
