Zipcar's Co-Founder: Carsharing Is An Exponential Solution To
Climate Change  Robin Chase thinks that the sharing economy can
put an end to all our problems. But how do you get the sharing
economy to the developing world?  The latest climate change
statistics are beyond depressing--so upsetting that you might
want to take a Xanax or two before reading the World Bank’s 2012
report on all the nasty things that await us in a warming world
that is nearly inevitable at this point. What can we do? World
governments won’t help us--years of failed climate summits and
missed opportunities for legislation have made that clear. City
leaders are helping, but change needs to happen at an
exponential pace.  Robin Chase, the co-founder of Zipcar and the
founder of French peer-to-peer carsharing service Buzzcar,
believes that carsharing--and resource-sharing in general--can
provide at least some of that exponential change.   Now imagine
what a difference it could make if the majority of car-owning
people in urban areas switc