“Understanding Transport Decarbonisation” explores the dualistic denial-vs-panic tension around climate change, through the prism of a British transport policy structure that is ill suited to reconciling it. The text outlines the challenge to that policy structure, and analyses the fractious duality at the heart of our topic. Then destroys any lingering faith that anyone can really understand anything, by documenting the limitations of using money to affect societal transactions, and by considering how to relate to a decentralised freight sector. Before concluding with a couple of bold assertions that place transport and understanding at the heart of climate change, to show how mapping transport onto an otherwise abstract problem of understanding, may allow that problem to be tackled. This essay was inspired by DecarboN8’s recent Real Zero conference, to whose participants I am grateful, although the essay’s method is somewhat more syncretistic.
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Tim Howgego 