ABSTRACT
Through the course of the book, we have set out how incremental change within the current decision-making paradigm will not deliver progress against the demands of the climate emergency. This chapter explores why current politics and decision-making processes fail to address the climate crisis, which is unfolding, and the social innovation emerging from local initiatives and the mobile undercommons. It sets out why the long-standing logics and practices that embed business-as-usual policies will, in any case, break down in the face of a changing climate. The chapter concludes that there are reasons to believe that institutions, politics, and policies can change rapidly, but that this is not necessarily generated from within dominant technocratic hegemonies such as those that shape the transport system. We suggest the need for a more ambitious form of experimentation and openness to social change than is currently recognised, setting the challenge for the subsequent chapter on “Acting Differently”.
