Disruption is coming and greenhouse gas emissions will be decreasing soon and mainly due to economic reasons, not environmental.
Electric cars are faster, more efficient, much longer lasting, and soon both cheaper and more convenient. Once cost parity is reached (likely with 3-4 years), gas powered cars will be obsolete.
Electricity generation will see disruption about the same time. It's already cheaper to build solar capacity with storage than gas/coal, and costs for solar and storage are still plummeting.
If self driving ever takes off, transportation becomes a service and personal ownership will plummet as most people in an urban environment can now subscribe to transportation as a service for one tenth the cost of ownership without losing any loss of convenience.
Disruption doesn't come from a single technological innovation. It often comes after a convergence of several innovations, and they're all happening right now.
I worry a lot about the Canadian economy. This has the potential to be awful for Canada.
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