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Now, “the market” is a name for a simplistic algorithm to create profit. The last 40 years demonstrate that the consequences of using it as the exclusive method for making decisions include gross inequality among humans and the wrecking of the health of the biosphere.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
Even with current battery technology, the company claims, its planes could be able to fly about 400 kilometers, or 250 miles. That’s about the distance between New York City and Boston or Paris and London.
The battery requirements to fly even these short trips are pretty substantial. Heart’s 19-seat planes will carry about 3.5 tons of batteries on board, for a combined capacity comparable to that of eight to 10 electric vehicles.
This Is What’s Keeping Electric Planes From Taking Off
Casey Crownhart
As former Maryland governorParris Glendening has said: "We cannot fool ourselves-or the public-any longer: we can no longer build our way out of our highway congestion problems. It is not an environmentally or financially feasible solution."'
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
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