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Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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You'll need to invent an air conditioned bicycle if you want me to ride
this is carbrained in the sense that the article is proposing much needed vast changes to urban transportation and the first inclination is "but what about meeeeeeeeeee"
I mean god's sake the byline is "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.", figure it out
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none of this is convincing me to get on a bike
I'm not trying to
Do you live in an inhospitable desert or something?
I've lived in a desert my whole life and biked year around. 30mi bike commute is a lot tho. The most I've done regularly is 10.
I like sweating though, after a while you get a lot of smelly junk out of your system. Its nice. Dealing with sweaty long curly hair is a whole thing, but so worth it.
Americans are truly going to kill us all
Once you hit about 15 mph on an e-bike, the breeze it pretty much equivalent.
Wear a crop top for better airflow
have you considered that the buses run better with fewer cars and more bikes, and not just like, whether this poses a moral quandary to you personally?
Have you considered that you're making up a guy in your head and arguing with him about some shit that i didn't say and offered no opinion on
no one asked you to ride a bike, what the actual fuck are you commenting if you don't have an opinion to express. we're talking about the death of millions from climate catastrophe in the next hundred years and you're being myopic.
Wild levels of optimism on hexbear today.
figured i'd rather wildly underestimate than check the presumably more horrifying real numbers.
I said Im not gonna do that
It's gonna happen anyway
No one asked you to comment on me commenting that I'm not gonna ride a bike
you're on the urbanism comm, c/doomer is that way. you're getting push back because being a nihilist is profoundly antisocial, and this is a comm about making urban environments better in our society.
ok guy
Why not?
gestures around the sweltering heat, visibly shimmering over the asphalt
it's hot
I live 30 miles from work
It's not going to change anything re: climate change (this is the vote with your wallet of hexbear)
How come there's so much asphalt?
Why do you feel adressed by an article that proposes changing urban transportation if you live 30 miles from your work?
see, this is where a train would come in. A quick bike ride to the station then 28mi on an air conditioned train and another quick bike ride to work. Putting cars at the end forces a lot more asphalt and parking problems, but a shuttle or local bus route could help if its really too hot to spend a few minutes on a bike to get from the stations to your destination.
an electric scooter could also help if you just really hate the bike form factor. any light or ultralight EV is going to be better than driving around in a wagon.
i would also add that aggregate decisions do matter, but only in aggregate. you riding a bike, individually, won't change shit, but everyone collectively using cars or not using cars makes a huge difference in air quality, carbon emissions, and pollution levels.
well what is your point, comrade? Lay it out for us
Shitposters on a shitposting site sure get mad over shit posts
coward
you're right i am afraid of sweating to death on a bike on the highway
quick question, what would improve your experience on the highway?
if you keep using air conditioner, eventually even air conditioner won't work
on the other hand 90F temps are very survivable if you drink water
you just have to shame the cattle into accepting sweaty people in the summer
also pie-in-the-face anybody who wears a suit in public. that shits for england where the record high is 77F. not here
If you ride fast you provide your own air conditioning
I can assure you and the other person that when it's hot and humid enough that doesn't work
Just need to ride faster
rip to your clothes but i'm built different.
i can respect being built different
With anti-veganism banned, cars are the last remaining thing that gets hexbears to post like federated users
ride in underwear
Trying using busses
Have you considered that you wouldn't have needed air conditioner if it wasn't for cars (OK there are exceptions places for this)