[sustran] Re: Guangzhou bans electric bicycles

[Todd Edelman]

Re: Guangzhou bans electric bicycles...

The United Notions Project for Real Sustainability, the Institute for the
Absolutely and Perpetually Newest Mobility and the World Council for
Worldly Counseling have recently divised a system to help people determine
if their solutions for personal mobility are sustainable:

Individuals may borrow a solar-powered time machine, which will be
delivered free-of-charge to any city or town on the edge of any ocean.
Into this rather large time machine the participant will bring the
personal mobility device which they currently are using, including, but
not limited to:

* Automobile
* Motorcycle
* Externally-powered bicycle (electic bicycle; in Bulgaria this is called
an „internally-powered bicycle“)
* Internally-powered bicycle (normal bicycle running off of „human
energy“; Bulgaria: „Externally-powered bicycle“)
* Electric-wheelchair (the consortium will loan particpants one which has
water-tight drive system)
* Manual wheelchair
* Skateboard
* In-line skates/rollerskates
* Feet with shoes
* Feet with sandals
* Feet

The participant then travels forward in time 100 years.

If, after arriving in the coastal city or town, they are able to use any
of the above device without complication, then that mobility solution is
SUSTAINABLE.

If they arrive in the coastal town and there is water of a depth which
causes their solution to permanently malfunction without extensive repair,
it is VERY LIKELY NOT SUSTAINABLE.

If they arrive and immediately drown, then the solution is DEFINATELY NOT
SUSTAINABLE.

For more information, visit the website www.returnofthelegs.com/not_to_drown


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