Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability, by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon Yesterday, I ran into a neighbor coming out of our building whom I hadn’t seen in a while. By turns discussing his investigation into purchasing a solar system for his house in Long Island (still costs too much) through how his first ever book writing was coming in his recent retirement (writing is slow and hard work) until we inevitably stumbled upon the current gloomy economy with its roots in the poor judgment of those (for the better part) formerly in power. As always, this neighbor dusted off some amazing here-to-fore undisclosed nugget from the timeline of his rich past: growing up in Sicily, working year upon years in the middle east and finally settling down in NYC. “When I was young I used to race cars,” he humbly revealed in a still thick Italian accent. “Everyone loves the feel of power. When you’re racing, of course you want more and more power. But any good driver knows that all that power isn’t worth a damn if your brakes don’t work.” 

The Premise of Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability Transportation experts Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon set out to explore the premise that there are now roughly a billion motor vehicles in the world and that number is set to double within twenty years. Largely a consequence of China’s and India’s explosive growth, developing nations are becoming car-centric cultures following in wheel tracks of America, the leading emissions culprit. With greenhouse gases already creating climate havoc and violent conflict in oil-rich nations on the rise, how might effective, realistic solutions be found?

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