Abandonment of individual automobiles as our main source of transportation. A world where a small percentage of the inhabitants consume most of the energy and make most of the pollution is not harmonious or healthy, nor is it sustainable. Today we have a world where twenty five percent of the people have eighty five percent of the income. Due to the car culture we have created, people who have them are so addicted to there automobiles that they can't even imagine a world without them. We would rather think that it is possible for all humans to someday progress to be able to have a auto, and that we will somehow find to a way of doing that without ecological destruction.
Electric cars driven by fusion are the popular choice for sustaining such a dream.
Justifying the continuation of our present problems and inequity with hopeful dreams for the future might prove to be folly, considering that nuclear fission made similar promises it was unable to keep. Perhaps those promises of cheap, clean future energy were a major psychological reason we allowed ourselves to burn almost all the world's oil in a century. That might have been good for the oil companies in the short run, but bad for the Earth and humanity in end. Reaching gridlock in most major cities is rapidly coming, and everyone sitting in there fast, powerful, prestigious automobiles, going ten miles an hour down a freeway, is about as wasteful, polluting and energy inefficient as it gets. Surely, we can come up with an alternative that is not just faster, more efficient and sustainable, but much more intelligent and aesthetically pleasing.