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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint (www.euronews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by silence7@slrpnk.net [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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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.

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

redesigning cities to be more bikeable (and less car centric) would have an infinitely better effect on your quality of life than stopping billionaires from using private jets tbh

not that we shouldn’t do both, obviously. we should prevent billionaires from existing in the first place even

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[–] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah there's like 25 000 private jets in the world. This is scandalous, this should be 0 one way or another, but it's not to scale with the problem.

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