Focus on shifting Mindset not Manure - The Drift

Everything is drifting around Technology..... Don't be left behind.

How fast do things change when you hit the tipping point? In 1898 the world’s first international urban planning conference was held in New York to deal with the first major city crisis: “The Great Horse Manure Crisis”.

In New York City, the population of 100,000 horses produced 2.5 million pounds of horse manure per day. In London the problem was even worse, with the Times of London writing “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.”

That same year, the first horseless automobiles began hitting the streets.

Within 50 years not only was there not nine feet of manure on the streets, but horses themselves had been banned.

What happened to horses is now happening to combustion engines.

Today Oxford announced it would be the first English city to ban all petrol and diesel vehicles from its “Zero-emission zone” city centre starting in 2020.

Today Paris also announced it is banning all vehicles that were not electric from the city by 2030.

France has said it would do the same for the entire country by 2040.

Britain will begin a country-wide ban from 2040 and will have all electric cars by 2050.

India has set a target of banning the sale of all petrol and electric vehicles by 2030.

And this week China has announced it will be setting a timeline to also move to zero-emission vehicles.

Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Korea and Spain have all set targets for increasing electric car sales, and Norway is leading the way with 40% of cars sold already electric or hybrid, and all cars and vans sold being zero-emission by 2025.

The next twenty years will see pollution and consumption of fossil fuels plummet, as a result of entrepreneurs and inventors coming up with smarter technology, and then progressive cities and governments following closely behind.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein

The moral of the story - In times of change, focus at shifting mindset, not shifting manure.