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

submitted 6 days 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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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 6 days ago (1 child)

It's not something people reasoned their way towards, it's constructed propaganda from the Fox News or Prager U crowd (I forget which). They discovered a long time ago that if they want their audiences to hate something that they can just straight up lie about what it is.

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

You're right of course, this kind of media is starting to flourish outside of the US and although they're not as prominent, the trend is there and it's looking bleak.

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