Amsterdam's head of transport has announced plans to ban petrol and diesel cars in the city by 2030.
The clean air action plan aims to make the Dutch capital a "world leader in emission-free transport".
Transport chief Sharon Dijksma said residents "live a year less on average due to dirty air" and that the plan should "prolong the health of the average Amsterdammer by three months."
But the plan has already incited strong reactions in the Netherlands with one motoring organisation branding it "bizarre" and wondering how normal people would afford electric cars.
The plan, which would be applied 20 years before the Paris Agreement aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions, would require up to 23,000 electric charging points by 2025. The city currently has 3,000.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @11:27AM (1 child)
Christians, eg 'The West' used to be just as nutty with their religion.
I know quite a few people of Arabic descent, whos ancestors were Muslim, and realistically? They aren't, any more than I'm Christian.
The real problem, as I see it, are fascist 'religious states'. As long as a religious states can control many things about what people learn, see, hear, and talk about -- the status quo will continue.
But that doesn't mean that 3rd generation immigrants will maintain historical ties.
But who knows really. 12 years is a long time, and a short time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @01:37AM
> The real problem, as I see it, are fascist 'religious states'. As long as a religious states can control many things about what people learn, see, hear, and talk about -- the status quo will continue.
The USA has many clusters of 2nd or 3rd generation madrassas [privateschoolreview.com]. Those who have passed through them only get minimal exposure to Western thought, ideas, or values, and not even reading or writing. The good news is that leaves them withoutt the skill to become serious terrorists. That is for the [nytimes.com]wealthy [internationalstudent.com], educated moslems. Other countries have it even worse. Pakistan [pbs.org] is one and a preview of Texas, Minnesota, and Michigan in another generation or two.