Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

[email protected] ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
[email protected] ← UK Rail and Trains
[email protected] ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

[email protected] ← general travel
[email protected] ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
[email protected] ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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How bad are electric bikes for the environment? (Spoiler, they can actually be better than regular bikes!) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're right, it's a no brainer. And to add: It's a very common critic of all post apocalyptic scenarios that noone considers to use bikes which are rugged enough to be used especially in such circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In The Stand, one of the characters rode a motorcycle but then stopped because he kept having visions of crashing and dying alone in a ditch (there was also a bunch of other psychological trauma involved). He walks for hundreds of miles after ditching his motorcycle and then one day he suddenly stops and thinks "why the fuck haven't I been riding a bicycle?!" And then just laughs at himself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That is hilarious, it is definitely easy to forget bicycles are anything more than toys, we were all raised in car-brained societies to basically see them as children’s toys (not that children have anywhere to ride them Stranger Things style in the modern hellscape of car infrastructure that is aggressively hostile towards children riding bicycles).