When the discussion turns to the environmental impact of human mobility, there is an overdose and many stereotypes. For example that the plane is bad and the train is good. That internal combustion cars are bad and electrics are good. In fact, those who drive electric cars pretend that they are on the right side of good children. But is that so?
Holistic approach
“For me, the point is, we need to argue less ideologically and emotionally,” says Klaus Randermacher. “On the contrary, we should focus more on numbers, dates, scientific data, facts. Physics does not deal with human emotions. Physics always applies. “We can not change the laws of physics.” The PhD worked for a long time as a manager before taking on a management consultant at his own company. One of the points in which he specializes is the “holistic analysis of complex systems”. What it means is contained in a study he did in collaboration with the Mobility Institute of the Swiss University of St. Gallen on his own initiative.
The discussion, he says, usually revolves around carbon dioxide emissions from cars or planes. But this is methodologically wrong because it is out of the question that to get to the airport or drive, you need infrastructure, ie roads, bridges, tunnels, parking lots, railways and much more.
The plane better than its reputation
“The 170-kilometer rail link between Cologne and Frankfurt, where trains are traveling at speeds of up to 300 km per hour, has, according to my measurements, generated many millions of carbon dioxide before the first train even set in motion,” he said. Randermacher adds that it is completely different to build highways in the flat Netherlands, without mountains and bridges, than in the Alps or the Black Forest. What he means is that CO2 emissions from infrastructure projects should not be ignored. This is something that should be taken seriously when designing traffic projects and media in the future. For example the electric car.
“I consider the subsidy for the purchase of electric cars with amounts of two billion in vain, including through the perspective of climate protection. What is happening is that misused combustion vehicles will be replaced by subsidized and equally misused electric cars. infrastructure.
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