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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint (www.euronews.com)
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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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[–] Wijnie@feddit.nl 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm from the Netherlands and use a bicycle for most of my daily commute. What isn't mentioned in the article: cycling is also dirt cheap. I bought a new bicycle 8 years ago for 500 euro, needed two times a repair of around 100 euro in total. That's like 3 months of owning a cheap car

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago) (1 children)

500 Euro?!

Luxury!

When I lived in The Netherlands I would buy my bicycles second hand (well, more likely 3rd or 4th hand) from a bicycle shop at the train station for less than €100.

It would've been cheaper to buy from the fishy looking guy near the Red Light District but those source their bicycles in "special" ways (and I don't mean "drag it up from the canal").

Granted, this was maybe 2 decades ago, but still, €500 sounds like treating oneself with an extra nice brand new bicycle.

Curiously I kept doing the same thing - buying my bicycles second hand from the bicycle shop - in both London and Berlin.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 minute ago

500 € is the cheaper side of decent new bikes... Inflation is a bitch. Still, you can't even buy only the tires of many cars for that price. It's dirt cheap to cycle.