Twelve Discourses of Climate Delay in the Transportation Sector

Perhaps one of the few good-news items of the 2020s is that climate denial is on its way out. In most of Europe, it has become hard to find public figures or organizations that outright deny the reality of human-made climate change. The bad news is that a more subtle, but no less insidious, discourse has taken its place: one where the speaker acknowledges (or pays lip service to) climate change, but then quickly moves on to explain why we should not do this or that to tackle it. Often, the goal is exactly the same as climate denial: to stop climate mitigation efforts in their tracks.