August 19, 2022 04:44 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/19/23312913/worldwide-bicycle-commute-netherlands-climate-change
To fightclimate change, we need to start biking like the Dutch
If people around the world were as enthusiastic cyclers as they are in the Netherlands, we could cut an impressive amount of planet-heating pollution. The Dutch use bicycles to get around more than folks in any other country, cycling about 2.6 kilometers (1.62 miles) a day.
If that was the trend across the world, it would slash 686 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution a year, according to the authors of a new study published this week in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. That’s enormous — roughly equivalent to erasing one-fifth of CO2 emissions from passenger cars globally in 2015.
Cleaning up pollution from transportation is a huge piece of the puzzle when it comes to slowing down the climate...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/19/23312913/worldwide-bicycle-commute-netherlands-climate-change
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