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Telecommunication network above city, wireless mobile internet technology for smart grid or 5G LTE … [+] data connection, concept about IoT, global business, fintech, blockchain getty While we will electrify everything everywhere all at once as a major lever of climate action, our exploration in this series starts with how we will move ourselves and the goods we depend on around. And that story starts with the global movement to cities, a megatrend that is continuing. As our population has exploded in the past century, our countryside has depopulated. Once, 95% of a country’s population were involved in agriculture and now in the developed world it’s 2%. Coal miners in the USA’s eastern coal region numbered 750,000 at the turn of the 20th Century when the population was vastly smaller and now fewer than 60,000 workers produce as much coal per year as more than a century before. Automation has freed the vast majority of people from lifetimes in agriculture and resource extraction. And it’s enabled a once relatively rare circumstance — living in cities — to become dominant. Global urban population by size of city from 1990 to 2030 World Economic Forum Our cities are vastly bigger than the cities of old. While more people are living in urban settlements of fewer than 500,000 people, two-thirds of city dwellers are in cities much bigger than that. A full 60% of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2030 and most of them will be in larger ones. With larger cities comes major advantages for electrification and hence decarbonization of transportation. The more people who live in a city, the greater the justification for subways, light rail, rapid bus transit and transit right of ways to move them between homes, places of work, shopping centers and entertainment. Everything…

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