The Mundi Club's Special Publications

Special Publications no.8

The Geophysiological Threats Posed by Green Cars.

List of Contents

The belief that technological improvements to the car such as catalytic converters, increasing fuel efficiency, using lightweight composite materials, or switching to solar power, etc, etc, could contribute to the stabilization of the global climate is a sheer fantasy. Such improvements could reduce the destabilzation of the climate caused by the car and car industry but such improvements would be miniscule in comparison to the destabilization of the climate caused by the the car, the car industry and the rest of the industrial matrix upon which the car depends i.e. the oil industry, the road construction industry, the mining industry, etc.

The belief in green cars is just an example of green denialism - the pathological inability to face up to the scale of the changes needed to create a sustainable planet.