The whole diesel/electric/petrol discussion is pointless, the only thing that is actually better for the environment is to drive less. The other three are all about a degree of being less bad, not better.
Every option being "pointless" until it's the absolute perfect universal best solution is a great excuse for never doing anything.
A very large percentage of the jobs out there could be done just as effective from home as from an office.
Sounds interesting. What was this thing and the use cases?
Can you imagine ships taking months to cross Atlantic? Can you imagine horse being used for delivery?
As Dr Elliot Fishman said when Dominos announced pizza delivery by self-driving cars: "If the answer is a 1500kg ton car to deliver a 0.9kg pizza, you're not giving the problem your full attention". - https://twitter.com/ElliotFishman/status/907698051589869568
[1] https://electrek.co/2019/04/10/p1-quadricycle-e-cargo-bike/
- less frequent shopping, delivered in a more efficient way, than one family car at a time
- improvements in public transport to reduce one-person drives
- more remote work, removing daily commuters
I really don't see why not.
> Can you imagine ships taking months to cross Atlantic? Can you imagine horse being used for delivery?
Yes I can. I can also imagine less shipping by producing more stuff locally.
> Can you imagine horse being used for delivery?
No, but I can imagine deliveries to be much more efficient than they are today. Just for one anecdotal example, last week I ordered two memory modules for a NAS, they arrived in two different shipments. Even a moments' reflection would have shown the ridiculousness of partial shipments, for one that particular NAS needs its memory incremented in double banks, for another, you'd have to do two upgrades even if it worked. So two different DHL trucks had to drive a significant distance in order to deliver two very small (less than 30 grams each) devices. The inefficiency there is staggering.