Electric cars won’t save us
The Spinoff Daily, Monday September 19
Ahiahi mārie.
Today on The Spinoff, Aimie Cronin meets former Waikato Times journalist, failed Mills & Boon novelist and Hamilton mayoral hopeful Geoff Taylor, Anna Rawhiti-Connell reflects on the death of the Queen in the age of the meme and Tara Ward watches the grimly money-obsessed local real estate reality show Rich Listers.
But first: Hayden Donnell on all the problems the EV revolution won’t solve.
“The reason we appear to love our cars is because we usually have no other way of getting around. Our relationship with them is less like love, and more like Stockholm Syndrome. For 70 years, we’ve been locked in a Sisyphean cycle where our planners have noted people tend to drive, and provided for more of the same, until nearly all our transport investment and space has been devoted to one mode.”
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