If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.

Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6 kilometres each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, the study suggests, annual global carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes.

This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.

  • grue
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    10 days ago

    no one wants to build a commercial center in an area where the roads are dirt and and the population density is < ~150 people per square mile, regardless of zoning laws.

    If the “nobody wants to build that anyway” argument were true, density-restricting zoning laws wouldn’t have been ‘necessary’ in the first place. You can tell their supporters are operating in bad faith because their arguments are self-contradictory.