![]() ![]() “And this is going to happen despite governments, not because of governments. So yes, this applies to Australia,” Seba tells RenewEconomy. The report, by RethinkX, an independent think tank that focuses on technology-driven disruption and its implications across society, says this stunning and radical will be driven entirely by economics, and will overcome the current desire for individual car ownership, starting first in the big cities and then spreading to the suburbs and regional areas. Or getting a free ride because the local government has decided to make transport easier. Imagine, for instance, paying a token sum for a ride into town after buying a latte for $4.50. The provision of this service may come virtually free as part of another offering, or a corporate sponsorship. It’s the death spiral for cars.Ī major new report predicts that by 2030, the overwhelming majority of consumers will no longer own a car – instead they will use on-demand electric autonomous vehicles.īy 2030, within 10 years of regulatory approval of autonomous electric vehicles (A-EVs), the report says, 95 per cent of all US passenger miles traveled will be served by on-demand, autonomous, electric vehicles that will be owned by fleets rather than individuals. Transport-As-A-Service will use only electric vehicles and will upend two trillion-dollar industries. But with two healthy calves born in 2020 and a new baby female calf born in 2022, local whale researchers and the Lummi Nation are holding out hope that it isn’t too late to ensure a future for Kiki and her family.By 2030, you probably won’t own a car, but you may get a free trip with your morning coffee. With 81 Salish Sea orcas missing or dead since 1998, J-pod is now down to 25 whales. With bustling port cities like Vancouver and Seattle surrounding Puget Sound, engine noise from ships echoes all the way down to the sea floor, drowning out their vocalizations and driving them to change their natural foraging and feeding habits.Īs international shipping continues its rapid rise, the orcas are in decline. J-pod vocalizes-without scaring away the salmon, of course.įor Kiki and her family, sound is pollution. ![]() But Kiki’s family speaks its own orca dialect. ![]() They even have their own language of clicks and calls, and use echolocation to “see” sound. ![]() They gather in joy for birth and mourn together in death. They have personalities and family bonds that last a lifetime. As humans, we share a lot in common with orcas. ![]()
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