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La face obscure des transports. | Laurent Castaignède | TEDxKedgeBSBordeaux


Hello everyone
this subject
news recently today the
transport network
time a climate problem is a
health problem the problem
because transport in
the world it’s a third of the emissions of
greenhouse gas when the addition
at the same time the emanations of the vehicles
but also their manufacture and the
manufacturing and construction and
maintenance of infrastructure that
require second subject of the aspect
sanitary
today the colors of
transport is about 20% to 50%
pollutants from the air of the big
metropolises
the consequence is a mortality that
the scale of the world is pretty much
equivalent to that of accidents and
that of the emanations in the medium
in the West and particularly in
la France
the gap is even bigger there is
today many times more people
who die from the emanations of
transport in France that accidents
of the road
so I’ll illustrate my point with
illustrations with illustrations
which are drawn from the book that I
just released edited by ecosociété
So to see where the face to the ruptures of
transports so you’ll see I’m going
address two centuries of history
ten minutes with then a
critical analysis of the situation
current and prospective then
first subject so on these two centuries
we’re going to take steps of 30 years a little
little by little, age is a first step
in 1800 in the 30s of 2008 1830 or
there you see on purpose that makes it a
drawing of anticipation since in 1830
appear in England the first
horse-free cars that looks like
rather to those who are in
the background which are vehicles
with whom carried 120 passengers on
a few dozen kilometers between
several cities around london there
you see anticipation ie
the draftsman projects himself
years later imagine that these
cars without horses so with
coal-fired engines develops
to all the mobility even to the tricycle
with gaseous fumes
catastrophic
as well as a risk of permanent accident
if you look at good details but in
done in the 19th century so we know we see
a dinosaur drawing as being an act
of lobby because this new part
economy does not please at all
companies of diligence nor to companies
railway that will do everything
to kill the market they go they
succeed in a single decade
by indirectly imposing tolls
important in the cities that cross
these cars without horses and also
a few farmers preceded them
of someone who had to run with a
red flag in front of you imagine the
says the difficulty in this market is going
collapse in about ten years and
so the air pollution of the
19th transport maybe you think
at lucky luke or western with
locomotives spitting a huge smoke
blackish
it’s true that the mechanic driver
him of intertwining between the reserve of
coal and saw it in December do not
certainly did not have to live very old
but the biggest of the pollution of
the air of transport in the 19th is in
makes the manufacture of iron and steel
which essentially serves the
manufacture of rails on the scale
world some more years of the
half of the world’s iron production
and steel for the manufacture of
tracks
so if then we add the
building the steel to build
ports or railway stations and also all
trains themselves as well as the ships
whose hulls are growing in
steel
we finally end up
transport air pollution and
especially at the 19th indirect there you have
like pittsburgh in pennsylvania
who is in the heart of the past
of anthracite makes it the capital
American finally from there
the steel industry, so the pollution of the
cancer transport just as much the
manufacture of more iron and steel than
coal mining in fact that is
needed to run its plants
then we make a jump from a
thirty years to find himself
so towards the very beginning finally come back
the end of the 19th century with the arrival of
the car we talked about cars
without horses with steam but
the automobile in favor of the engine to
explosion
and also the development of
accumulators because at the time there
also had a lot of cars
proportionally is therefore
there you see at the very beginning of the twentieth
exit from a sunday in paris with a
large crowd admires the hunted
crossed relatively affluent people
who has a car what you
can see in the drawing it’s
the omnipresence of dust with
also women who are forced to
veil we do not even see their faces
the others to protect themselves for by his
for why this situation because
cars more than the brain
horses raises dust and the
big fear in the 19th is actually
the man says presence of horses and
their consequences in Paris there was
hundred thousand horses at the end of the 19th
century without me horses in Paris it’s
dung everywhere corpses
of dead animals regularly the
proliferation of flies and
epidemics in the city of
when it should be so first
people who have seen
automobiles even if she smoked
a lot of polluting gases
it does not matter it will be horses –
and their fears were the dust
which stores and bacteria
so he was trying to protect himself from it
will give you that cyclist to
right he is absolutely not protected
in the middle of it all so
we will make a jump of 30 more in
the 20s in the 20s ago
two noticeable phenomena that I wanted
emphasize this is the introduction of
leaded gasoline
a General Motors engineer Debt
discover as being a little bit
lead in gasoline which does not
cheap cost it gets a gasoline
which has a higher octane number so
in fact it makes it work that allows
to run the engines a
little bit more powerfully and he says to himself
that this is going to be a source of profit
colossal he will be right it will be
millions of millions of dollars to the
key for general motors
the doctors alert the authorities
public by telling them this is
extremely dangerous
lead poisoning as a management of
paint or lead pipes this is the
lead poisoning it was in the 10s
that the god that people had
extremely scared had revealed itself to the great
public
and there we are in the years there
seeks to introduce leaded gasoline
so some big cities are starting
to ban leaded gasoline
the marketing of the senses to the blonde
but nobody is able to prove
that it is the health consequence
obviously it’s an intoxication the
shame doctors do not suspect
strongly of being able to prove anything and one
is obliged to leave there the essence to
lead become widespread throughout the
world during the half century
then we can go to the
50s then there you have in which
took out so2 that one entrusts my
global conflict in the united states so there
you make a little bit before or in
presents to the people of the ideal city
for example in the exhibition
international of new york in 39 years
their art presentation to the ideal city that
is the great great metropolis that is
consisting of two cities juxtaposed they
are each dozens of activities
industrial cities of the cities of
recreation and residential cities with
that authorized transport that
serve all that and we promise people
that eventually they will all do
all their individual cars and that
it will be your freedom with perspective
that everyone has later on at the
generation of a helicopter loan
the individual that will allow you to
guess on the image of being able to live where
we want while working where we
wants and move as hobbies where
we want without obviously doubting you
no bottling such as it’s
presented says no pollution but in
In fact, from the point of view of
pollution there are many
red alerts
so here I show you a drawing then
you have an image because of a
photo of the smoke of london most
terrible that that of descent 52 which has
killed ten thousand in a few days
and then right I show an image
recent in china is of great
Chinese city where one wonders
finally where is the progress then on
these two images you can tell yourself
that there is some form of
relocation then relocations
industrialists because the pollution of
the shadow today thankfully is
not at this level but there is also a
kind of relocation
relocation of life boots
since we are explaining to
all these emerging Asian countries that
their happiness is soon to have
each his car and to be able to leave
on holiday by plane
so to extricate yourself from this case and
on the right the mask of course does not serve
nothing about the fine particles that the
through
copiously so then if we advance
a little bit in the sixties
ten good appear the pots
catalytic
but especially motorized transport
are developing exponentially and
so a top example of today
so there you have an image of the port of
singapore with tens of thousands
containers and there that I wanted
was at dock for example talk about them
kane which at the end of the eighteenth you
know better than me think that the
human happiness go through the
territorial specialization to
production of commodities or objects and
to spread them around the world and
in fact when you look at his daughter
from then adam smith
he was past he had passed because
if you open a container you have
80% chance of falling on a product
semi girl so that the maths the
polymer materials regularly make
more than the turn of the earth before
to land in the hands of the
final consumer via a product
manufactured
that’s for the goods but we have
also the version for people with
the development of
of low cost air tourism here is where
you have an image of the model
digital job site that has
Started from Dubai’s second airport
there on this picture the small features
whites are not ants these are
large aircraft that are
able to be supplied with
parallel person is so this
airport that is under construction
its capacity is four times that of
biggest airport today is 4
times the Atlanta traffic 4 times the
shanghai traffic this airport the
development of mass tourism
hides behind that with particular a
kerosene that has already been zero-rated
there it is sold at broken prices to
local companies then there the
conclusion all that sounds like in
the 60s – 70s already thinkers had
as such and him jacques ellul
Bernard Charbonneau that I quote because
that israel had fulfilled but also
ivan illich who found that
does all these transports allowed
promise by their speed of
shorten travel times but
do those found at the end of life
started to notice and thought that it
was only going to get worse in fact this is
too rested lengthens distances
since it does not shorten the times of
journey is finally there the record of
all this since I showed you
today it’s finally that the
motorized transport they still
two speaking massy mass shots
to transport 30 metamorphosed actually
the website the site at suburban ranks
metamorphosed from travelers into tourists and
the actor in consumers then
the analysis of all this finally why
today we see on paper
that transport is darker than
Never Sometimes they are extremely to
tells us
and yet the result
we have seen what it is catastrophic
which explains all that then obviously
in history we can see at the
times the increase exceeds speeds
dvd of all vehicles that is on
road on our in the air one can
see also an optimization
regulatory ie the big ones
accounts that will fetch between
line of regulations to be able to better
use and market them
vehicles that will be at a little bit for
sometimes even cheat
manifest as you saw for the
teaser gates the problem also touches
biofuels with anne and
eels but whose interest has
revealed to be very doubtful for many
of them is also the fragility of
pollution control systems that take
not necessarily well the life of the
vehicles
Here then pass this observation the
forward looking now if you read the
prospective let’s say official you
will see that the world traffic of
transport is only
the prospective the prospective you
can read it’s about
perpetual growth of 3% per year for
all the world traffic
on the other hand the air transport him he
is about 5% so 3% a year it’s a
doubling every 25 years the traffic
aerial it’s a whole
every 15 years and remember that the
technical progress trend is there is to
roughly a gain of 1% per year so the
balance of perhaps a priori that a
increase in gas emissions to
greenhouse effect and emissions from
pollutants so today though one
then you say yes but there is some
technological messianism also is
promises us that with technology
she’s going to save from that misstep then
there are several subjects in the teeth
the technological promises I’m going in
put 2 in relief for example one is
the electric car in the car
electric she is presented as
being the zero emission with a momentum
quotation marks but you have to have
aware that rare metals on the
planet are in has the ability to go
to substitute a billion cars
several hundred million
trucks and half a billion eggs from
two motorized wheels we do not have the
metals on the planet in the 30 years to
come in to be able to do that it’s a
first subject the second is that
the extra electricity that goes
to recharge all these batteries
she is often particularly
polluting
we will say the door reaches the door
standard of the electric car or
then the ultimate target
you know it’s the good autonomous car
but the autonomous car she is
present and very favorably by this
that they are told a computer it does not drink
no alcohol so car at the turn
for a few accidents the second
thing the car cask beautiful when you
do better than the best of
drivers in ecodriving so they
pollute less
this is a presentation that is
purely in a substitutional logic
displacement substitute we have some
investments today with a vehicle
normal and we say like with
dom while from my point of view what
will happen is that the car
autonomous will be much more active it’s
to say that it will lead to add
travel for several reasons
for example the fact that she is
perfectly designed for
traffic jams since you leave in
traffic jams with car
tomorrow you can do absolutely
something else so but a little cloud of
you two are more scared she gives
access to far more distances
long
and finally it allows to circulate
of a person all alone in a
vehicle that does not have its license in
for all these reasons she will lead
certainly to a lot more addition
displacement than that of substitution
so finally what can we
propose in all this the question the
subject today is emancipation
in fact the subject is emancipation
finally little dinosaurs that
I call perfore the everyday that are
have become all transport
motorized in their hegemony time 2 2
and the regime hated in our society
so what should we do to
genuinely reduce emissions from
greenhouse effect gas he said the
pollutants good he wants I do not hide you
that we will have to send heavy
then obviously it will be necessary to consider
the base the canary of the vehicles
allowed speeds but also
can consider it the price because
that today most
infrastructures are paid by financed
by the community and the use of peace
that the marginal cost makes it access
to this mobility
also the number with why not the
establishment of a world cadastre of
mobility what had gone in the
turn and finally obviously
decrease the supply of energy in particular
fossil by avoiding looking at everything
extract what’s on the planet in
oil terms in particular
and also coal gas is actually
one last point if from here to steer the
agrofuels sector to avoid
that these are the most common uses
wasting that that for them to
appropriating it as it starts to be
the trend today
so finally I would like to finish
first by a good a little he
a little wink passing them from
then chaps away the danger of particles
fine knows she’s coming in by a
ear and except by the other
actually it’s a subject like I
said today we’re still talking
many more road accidents
that of this problem there so I wanted
end with a kind of meditation
so with the little newspaper of 1926 the
freelancer rallye titled in 1926 on a
rich american that you see at
the back of a deacon who makes it there
before thomas paris so the cabs in
1926 she almost did not have most
have become taxis
automobiles a gift he took 1
from eternit fiacre to paris by telling him
who was driving me to the place of
freedom to biarritz
so I will pay you all your buttocks there
happened and so they live almost
40 days because in addition he did not even
not want to go through the big cities
and therefore the article that is backed up
it is to this drawing explains well that
unlike his peers him this
american him he really knows what
it’s France because he knew these
small towns these campaigns its
inhabitants he even lodged at the inhabitant
unlike his congeners who do not
take that train and the hotel and that
finally go back to the united states they do not
know almost nothing about France
so I wondered if this is
never ricains had not read octave
mirbeau octave mirbeau was a
well- known pamphleteer journalist
pretty well paid because it was because
that he was feared at the beginning of the 20th
century is going to be before octave mirbeau
had
with that we will say his car a little
luxurious his driver had been able
walk in the band in france en
belgium is roland last counted
it’s his journey in a book and he
specifies in this book that he identified
a new disease this practice
call it speed not talk about the
speed which is the salt that are the
odometer of the car and
not this one
he evokes the speed that is the mode of
life of people who started in the nerves
start to be mounted on springs
when a hectic life and that does not
think as soon as they are somewhere
than to go elsewhere quickly and
still further today
ultimately it’s not the discovery and the
speed we could see
today that amd finally
victim of a crime of fidgety and so
in conclusion to resume a small
little the terms of molière I wanted
tell you that what is going to have to
relearn today is to move
to live and not live to move
thank you
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