Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities - eviltoast

Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK. Sounds impressive, but even if all new cars were electric now, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the world’s fossil fuel car fleet.

The emission savings from replacing all those internal combustion engines with zero-carbon alternatives will not feed in fast enough to make the necessary difference in the time we can spare: the next five years. Tackling the climate and air pollution crises requires curbing all motorised transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possible. Focusing solely on electric vehicles is slowing down the race to zero emissions.

    • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      What do you mean? You can use the sidewalks that randomly end for no reason, use bridges with 3ft of space right next to the car lane, and oblivious drivers on their phones using the whole lane and some of the next.

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      10 months ago

      That’s because Texas was built wrong. The solution is to fix it, not push cars instead of bikes.

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          10 months ago

          I was speaking generally, not about the people in this thread in particular.

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          9 months ago

          they literally ripped out the streetcars in a conspiracy and got a slap on the wrist fine. cars were absolutely pushed down out throats., why do you think it’s so hard to choose not to use one even if you want to?

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            9 months ago

            Current time response to claim of pushing cars in this thread is in no way countered by discussing things that happened somewhere else a hundred Years ago.

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      10 months ago

      I walk as much as possible in Texas, but I would never ride a bike. Seeing how drivers are everywhere I have lived here beat that notion out of me.

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      10 months ago

      Most of the south TBH. Even in my southern college town which was actually designed around bike infrastructure, I had to stop because I kept getting hit.