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dwazou ( dwazou@jlai.lu ) Banned to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

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Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

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dwazou ( dwazou@jlai.lu ) Banned to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
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Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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    I have 30km there and 30km back from the from the shops on country roads. An electric car seems a safer and more practical way to encourage a change in my circumstances.

    • Walk_blesseD ( Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Old mate commented before reading the headline 💀💀💀

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      You do you, other people live in the city

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        There is also a social engineering aspect. Our populations and cities have been developed in a spread out fashion with services and shops established in hubs. They aren’t the villages of the early 1900s. The car was the major design influence, hence the problem. Some people are lucky and can walk, others are able to cycle however many just can’t conceive anything other than a car. That’s where EVs come in.

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          I don’t see how that’s relevant but yes

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            The relevance is the difficulty in convincing people who live in cities designed for car traffic to stop driving and start walking. Distances are large enough to get significant push back.

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              The cities need a glow up first. But it’s more than just an infrastructure problem. To my knowledge there’s no laws requiring grocery store chains to not have a monopoly or not be hella far away

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