Transportation is very energy intensive and it uses a lot of resources. I rather expect that because we, or at least my hope, is that we move in the direction of decentralization and localism and when you add to that the communications revolution of the internet, I'm rather hopeful that transportation will become less important and we will devote less resources to transportation and it will become a smaller sector of the economy just moving people around. Move around conversations and ideas and so forth. Oh, people now and then but not so much transportation.
08.05.2007,
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Herman E. Daly is an ecological economist and professor at the Maryland School of Public Affairs. Prior to his work at the Maryland School of Public Affairs, he worked at the World Bank, where he was Senior Economist in the Environment Department, helping to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America. He is co-founder and associate editor of the journal, Ecological Economics. His interest in economic development, population, resources, and environment has resulted in over a hundred articles as well as numerous books. His awards include the Grawemeyer Award for ideas for improving World Order, of the Honorary Right Livelihood Award, the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Sophie Prize awarded by Norway.
