Climate

And of course it's your responsibility as opposed to the people designing infrastructure, the politicians approving their plans, and the corporations lobbying the latter

/s

I got 54kms to get to work every day and no place to park that's safe between.

I would be happy as a Clam to save my morning run and go to my car but it's not feasible unfortunately.

Maybe stop putting the buck on people trying to make a living and give it to politicians who fly privately or massive shipping companies.

The Dutch also have a very flat country

If everybody cycled as much as the Dutch, global carbon emissions would drop by nearly 700 million tonnes per year.

For context, Wikipedia puts annual global carbon emissions in 2023 at 39,024 million tonnes. That's a 2% slash. I suppose if you find a lot of these it could add up, but without a fix for the original problem of unregulated capital expansion it's just going to fill the void.

I am strongly leaning toward beginning to take practical steps to someday move to the Netherlands because, even ignoring the ugly US political climate (which let's be real, is probably not going anywhere good anytime soon), I came to realize as a bike commute lover that I will always be miserable in this country unless I relocate somewhere where I can bike more freely.

there is NO solution to climate change that doesn't involve a > 80% reduction in car use (and banning flying) Even the IPCC has said e-cars aren't an answer (they embed urban sprawl).

There's is a persistent myth that we can't inconvenience anyone, which is patently nonsense as the destruction of civilisation from climate change is more than inconvenient.

Rebuild the whole of society, place affordable houses around work centers and we could.

Cities need to be build around this concept

Well, they have longer legs than the rest of us.

I'm from the Netherlands and use a bicycle for most of my daily commute. What isn't mentioned in the article: cycling is also dirt cheap. I bought a new bicycle 8 years ago for 500 euro, needed two times a repair of around 100 euro in total. That's like 3 months of owning a cheap car

People are not aware how wasteful cars with combustion engines are. If you go by a car to the next supermarket to buy a veggie pizza, the emissions from the car are likely higher than from your whole meal - 220 grams per person-kilometer.

Per kilometer, the carbon footprint of a car is about as high as seat in a passenger plane.

Trains are at a tenth of that.

Bikes practically at zero.

And bikes are the means of transport which statistically make your life longer , not shorter - cars mostly kill people by lack of movement.

Hey, hey, hey… my fat mother isn't going to ride a bike. Even though I rode a bike for years, I like air conditioning now that I'm older (fatter). You can't save the world trying to convince me that I should sweat.

/this is sarcasm

“bikes are icky and slow. They just get in the way of my lifted f250, blacked out, with a really loud exhaust that I only use to drive to Walmart for groceries” MAGAcucks

Then build us cities like the dutch.

Having to only go as far as the Dutch for travel would be helpful for transitioning to bicycles. The moment American city distances ( hundreds of km) are applied, everyone scraps bikes. Buses and trains and cars and planes become the conversation - bikes aren't realistic for actual travel but nice for local commutes like groceries.

I always say my "dream car" is good public transit and walkable cities with good bike infrastructure.

It might not work everywhere, but it's a nice goal and it would have the secondary effect in America of making most of us a lot healthier.

I'm all for more biking. I will remind everyone that the Netherlands is almost completely, absolutely, flat. probably the most conducive place for biking in the entire world

People shit all over 15 minute cities. I miss it moving to Canada from the UK.