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A tremendous amount of energy is used for getting us and our stuff around. Humans have always been a mobile species, always on the go. But the advent of cheap energy coupled with our new transportation technologies let humans move farther, faster, and more often. As we described earlier, cheap modes of transportation have resulted in deleterious environmental impacts from energy extraction, pollution, and the infrastructures built to move people and stuff around. Transportation and its energies also have structured social relations in unequal ways. In the US, cheap energy helped facilitate suburban sprawl, leading to urban pollution when all these suburban cars were used each day in the city.
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Mulvaney, D. (2020). Low-Carbon Mobility. In: Sustainable Energy Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48912-0_8
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