A UK Transport Minister has declared that owning a car is “outdated thinking” and that the UK should move to “shared mobility” to cut carbon emissions.
Junior Minister Trudy Harrison was speaking at a sustainability conference. She’s also Boris Johnson’s parliamentary private secretary.
According to The Mail Online:
She told a virtual audience at shared transport charity CoMoUK what the country needed was a move away from ’20th-century thinking centred around private vehicle ownership and towards greater flexibility, with personal choice and low carbon shared transport’.
‘Changing the way people consider car ownership and dependency will take time,’ Ms Harrison said.
Yet she added: ‘Many things seem far fetched until they aren’t and I believe the same is true for shared mobility.
Cars are responsible for approximately 13 per cent of Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The Conservatives said they would reduce emissions to net zero by 2050 and have committed £5 billion to ‘greener’ transport such as walking and cycling.
One way of achieving this is by the banning of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030.
Echoes of Klaus Schwab here? The Executive Chairman of The World Economic Forum is on the record as saying that the pandemic “represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.”
He also said that in future we (that’s you and me) “will own nothing and be happy about it.” It would appear that also applies to cars too then.
It’s a brave new world.
