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Interestingly, riding a bicycle has higher greenhouse impact than a car. Because, you see, the human body requires more high-quality food and that has the bigge
by JoeAltmaier 5y ago
Interestingly, riding a bicycle has higher greenhouse impact than a car. Because, you see, the human body requires more high-quality food and that has the biggest footprint of any human activity.
It's complicated. There's always more nuance than we want to admit. All those insisting its somehow simple because they've figured out one factor (see other comments in this thread) are always being naieve.
- bagacrap 5y agoGonna need a citation on that one. My sources say driving (ice) is 13x as bad as cycling. Electric cars are much better but still worse than cycling and create far greater impact that's not captured by ghg metrics. https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-environmental-impact/#:~:text=Using%20the%20same%20estimate%20for,to%20provide%20the%20extra%20food https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-enviro....