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   The World Economic Forum Is Coming for Your Cars   
   By The Editorial Board, June 14, 2023, WSJ   
   If the World Economic Forum (WEF) has its way, the number of cars around the   
   world will be reduced by 75% by 2050. How ironic that the denizens of Davos   
   who spend much of their lives being chauffeured back and forth from   
   international conferences hate    
   cars.   
      
   The goal is buried in a briefing paper released last month called “The Urban   
   Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban   
   Mobility.” It points out that more than two-thirds of the world’s   
   population will be urban by    
   2050. If we are to meet their needs and achieve the climate goals of the Paris   
   Agreement, the report recommends “electrification, public transport and   
   shared mobility.”   
      
   This will mean a lot fewer cars: “Reduce vehicles from a potential 2.1   
   billion to 0.5 billion.” That is a radical drop with fewer than 30 years to   
   do it. But this, it says, “could slash emissions from passenger vehicles by   
   80% compared to a    
   business-as-usual scenario—reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by   
   3.9 billion tons a year.”   
      
   People prefer owning cars because it gives them unparalleled mobility, and   
   today most are powered by fossil fuels because they offer better performance   
   and value. If mass transit offered equal or better performance, and was   
   competitively priced without    
   heavy taxpayer subsidies, more people would choose it. There’s also the   
   small matter of what energy sources are going to provide all of the   
   electricity for the electric vehicles that will replace gas-powered engines.   
   The WEF goals will require a vast    
   project in central planning at untold cost.   
      
   Voters in democracies can embrace all this if they want. And we have an idea   
   that might help the Davosians sell their plans to the hoi polloi. Why not set   
   an example by banning travel by private jet to WEF gatherings?   
      
   Private jets have a carbon footprint much greater than individual cars. If   
   this were put up for debate by the WEF, we might even get a more realistic   
   discussion on costs versus benefits.   
      
   https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-economic-forum-paper-reduce-c   
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