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The problem with this is that while true, the solution for lower emissions will look different for every place.
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Not really sure how well bikes would work where I live. The winters are harsh, and its steep hill after steep hill.
E-bikes can definitely solve the hill problem. As for staying warm, there’s the option of bundling up in some winter rated clothes. Think clothes for skiing or winter hiking, etc. I’ve even seen jackets with usb rechargeable heaters inside of them that motorcyclists use, though I haven’t tried that myself.
When the weather is nice you could ebike.
e-biking RULES. You don't even have to pedal if you don't want to, the throttle works just fine (although it eats your battery life if you don't augment it with pedaling)
This kind of e-bike is not allowed (or it is, but with big caveats, more akin to motorcycles) on public European roads. Regular ebikes can't have a throttle and are heavily restricted on top speed (20 to 25km/h depending on the country. Can go faster but you're not helped by the motor over that speed).
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There is a very impressive set of reasons why we could and should encourage less CO2 intensive forms of transport, indeed many actions. However, these arguments always seem to me to take the pattern of picking the extreme example of whatever good we are hoping to achieve and then implying that everyone else could easily make the switch. There is always a wide and natural variety in things and this is true for differences between nations too. Extreme examples used like this often just end up making a bigger divide between people because the discussion misses all of the important differences that constrain choices and shape outcomes. We just end up talking from our own perspectives and experiences rather than exploring the complicated and difficult questions of how we can produce localised and regional responses to CO2 emissions drawn from fossil fuels.
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I like this idea in principle, but the annual CO2 emissions for 2018 was about 35 billion tons. This makes the drop barely even impact our total production, let alone be enough to stop global warming.
It's still a worthy goal, but we'd be better off focusing on bigger wins, where even a few percent of carbon reductions would dwarf this number (or pushing for both).
This may work in the Netherlands, but in my country (Canada) where it's a 2 hour drive to the next city, it simply isn't feasible. I do, however, wish that my city was much more bicycle friendly and we had easier and cheaper options for bikes that could be enclosed from the weather.
We need high speed trains between cities with a car for storing bicycles
I think we need electric trains across the whole country and into the arctic and territories. Encourage more eco tourism. We can barely access northern Ontario much less the territories. This would require nuclear power, and as a byproduct, tritium which is needed for next generation fusion reactors. We could become the next Saudi Arabia.
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You can ride a bike to work or the store around here, but you'll be walking home. Bikes are way too easy to quietly steal.
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Transportation and electric power are 38% and 33% of co2 emissions in the US respectively.
https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/images/full-reports/2022/58566-fig1_emissions-sector.png
Passenger vehicles are 58% of co2 emissions of all transportation in the US.
https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/images/full-reports/2022/58566-fig4_emissions-type.png
Electricity generation breaks down as: Petroleum (crude oil and natural gas plant liquids): 28% Coal: 17.8% Renewable energy: 12.7% Nuclear electric power: 9.6% .