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Sorry to continue to disagree, but it won't do any of that. It's just too weak to offset that alongside these policies there will be continuing population increase, with millions and millions of people around the world aspiring to the 'lifestyle' that we are so reluctant to radically reform, as well as the usual stuff that takes us backwards, such as more road-building, the aforementioned increase in driving because electric cars are so green (all energy for them will, of course, come from renewable sources, ah yes, how could I doubt that it's so simple), etc. Integrated transportation, which I used to support but don't any more, has the perverse effect of concentrating economic activity in fewer places and increasing the need to travel. Raising flying costs will not have a particularly severe impact on frequent fliers (the cost will just be absorbed into the economic mainstream), and all the other targets are far too unambitious.

Most of these policy ideas are incredibly old. The way it works is that what needed to be done decades ago was blocked and delayed and kicked into the long grass until, having been in the policy pipeline for so long, it comes to 'acceptance' far, far too late and then serves merely as greenwash. Meanwhile, the decisive policies that ought to be started now will suffer the same fate as what might have seemed radical a generation ago. At some point, which we may well already have passed, it'll be just.too.late.