OPINION | JOUBERT ROUX: ‘South Africa should take a leaf out of China’s Electric Vehicle book’

Joubert Roux in China

“Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country” exhorted a notable New York newspaper editor in 1865. Well, times change, and instead, in 2024, we would do well to look to the East to see a glimpse of what the future holds.  I recently spent two weeks in China, meeting a…

OPINION | JOUBERT ROUX: ‘We ignore the coming Electric Vehicle revolution at our peril’

Similarly, the growth of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is still being met with scepticism by some world leaders, despite many countries already switching to EVs at impressive rates. For example, in Norway, 80% of passenger vehicle sales in 2022 were EVs, while in China, the biggest car market in the world,  EV sales made up 22%…

Demographic Transition – Too Many People or Not Enough?

In the race to halt climate change, overpopulation was a common point of concern. The popular conception was that the human population would increase exponentially until we ran out of resources. The theory dates from the 1700’s, when Thomas Malthus pointed out that resources such as land area for crops are finite, while human populations…

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