Klaus wants you to give up your car for climate change

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The World Economic Forum has decreed the West should give up the idea of owning personal vehicles, smartphones and computers in order to effect a rapid revolution away from fossil fuels and toward green energy. “We need a clean energy revolution, and we need it now,” the WEF asserts. “But this transition from fossil fuels to renewables will need large supplies of critical metals such as cobalt, lithium, nickel, to name a few

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There are three possible solutions to the shortage of critical rare earth minerals, writes Yeh, but the most important is that people in the West “go from owning to using” vehicles and electronic devices. Yeh argues that people with an extra “mobile phone” or “an unused hard drive” or a vehicle that is “driven just 4% of the time” are “not at all resource sufficient.” The solution, the WEF reveals, is the sharing economy.

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“More sharing can reduce ownership of idle equipment and thus material usage,” wrote Yeh for the WEF. “Car sharing platforms such as Getaround and BlueSG have already seized that opportunity to offer vehicles where you pay per hour used.”

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