[sustran] Re: Are bicycles good for the environment?

[Lee Schipper]

Careful, the key to his thesis is that the extra length of life cyclists or others who esercise get translates into extra CO2 consumption, using
the US per capita CO2 consumption as a way of estimating that difference.

>>> carlos.pardo at sutp.org 7/21/2006 9:04 AM >>>
Nobody who is a real cyclist will eat like a pig, or spend more resources
than he or she should (I hope). I guess the author of the study thinks that
everyone eats the same and the increase of hunger will increase the amount
of food they eat. I would expect that from a couch potato. Or do they eat
little? Of course, they die earlier.

I know! Let's ride a bicycle to death! I almost got hit by a car half an
hour ago coming back from my morning ride. I guess that is the most
sustainable way to live... or die.

Carlos F. Pardo 
Coordinador de Proyecto 
GTZ - Proyecto de Transporte Sostenible (SUTP, SUTP-LAC) 
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Bogotá D.C., Colombia
Tel:  +57 (1) 215 7812
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nombre de Sunny
Enviado el: Viernes, 21 de Julio de 2006 05:30 a.m.
Para: Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport
Asunto: [sustran] Re: Are bicycles good for the environment?

Nice article but many things to think of...just becoz cyclists live 
longer and eat more is cycling bad?...something to think of....how about 
thinking of sustainable consumption rather....If the developed countries 
consumed in a sustainable way then the world would have been a different 
place. Though India is 2nd most populated country in the world but how 
much energy does India consume compared to the developed counterparts? 
Increasing demand of energy in India or China is for the industrial 
activities which feed the developed countries. Self Sufficiency is the 
buzz word I guess. When India cannot feed its own people why are we 
planning to meet the needs of others (Only my govt. shud know).

KEEP BIKING FOLKS!!!

Sunny

(I hope we wont end in a future where killing human is the only 
sustainable alternative for living???? may be or maybe not)

Francis Papon wrote:
> Following this rationale, murderers are heroes and should be rewarded, 
> investment in the weapon industry is the most sustainable and nuclear 
> proliferation is a blessing.
>
> But there is a point: what is the ultimate goal of mankind, if any? Is 
> it to make as many people as possible sustain a dull life, or to allow 
> a happy few enjoy brilliant achievements? Or to put it in diachronic 
> way, is it better to ensure the longest possible survival of the human 
> species, at the price of enforcing for ever unfortunate lifestyles, or 
> to promote the delightful current party, however short it may be?


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