It’s far Worse than Presented – Transportation and its Supply Chain
Judging solely by what comes out the tailpipe, Transportation is the second largest contributor to the World’s GHG emissions. On the left, there’s the suicidal trajectory humanity is on, while the green dotted line on the right-hand side shows the one we’re supposed to follow.
As if this wasn’t bad enough already, we ought to consider that Transportation would not exist without its supply chain and roads (with their enormous embedded emissions). Adding the atrocious emissions caused by mining, shipping, refining the ore, manufacturing and assembling the vehicles, and then shipping them again worldwide, would definitely make Transportation the top emitter. To disrupt this trend we should do a lot more than merely cancelling our vehicles’ tailpipes.
Policymakers like to bolster that by 2030 vehicles will no longer have tailpipes (which, by the way, from a global perspective it’s false, narrow-sighted, and utterly utopic). However, replacing almost 1.6 billion ICE cars with EVs worldwide will actually boost emissions in Industry, Shipping, and Power generation for at least three decades if not five. (hence the steeper part of the combined trend. So, no positive change in the big picture of global emissions before warming up the planet beyond repair.
Would it be wise to wait and see what happens till it’s too late, hoping current strategies will work?
The size and weight reduction of Nymbel’s vehicles and infrastructure curbs emissions and environmental destruction across the entire transportation supply chain.