Once the impact of climate ...

Once the impact of climate change becomes visible, politics will react quickly and forcefully. We saw that in Germany in 2002 during the floods on the Elbe River. They, in fact, determined the result of the (general) elections (later that same year).
 Hermann E. Ott

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I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.
 Hermann E. Ott
Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.
 Hermann E. Ott