The world is not going to turn its back on automobiles. But a much smaller percentage of the world will ever demand them than North Americans presume.
, megadroughts, and energy problems, it will wither as well. A self-correcting problem, and at 0.008% of the world’s population, a rounding error on a dehydrated gnat’s thorax.
Houston, #5 , is going to be so hard hit by the collapse of fossil fuel demand globally in the coming decades that, as well as serial climate change exacerbated hurricanes and flooding, that it’s going to be another Detroit, a faded patchwork of its former glory. It was already at, and that’s going to increase rapidly. Also only 6.6 million, so a rounding error globally.
The point is that we should not overestimate urban sprawl based on North America, Canada, and Australia’s worst cities. That’s an availability bias. Instead we should look at actually populous Asian countries where 90% of the populace lives in multi-unit residential buildings and where density and transit are the norm.
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