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.

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.

  • jaschen@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Cars are just the “effect” of the “cause”. Vote in your local elections for better zoning laws and stop upvoting these shit articles that blame the people.

      • jaschen@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I mean, with that logic, if 1/2 of the world population didn’t eat and just died, that would also fix the problem too. But that isn’t going to happen so your statement is as dumb as mine.

        • ILikeBoobies
          1·
          10 months ago

          Put a ban in place for 2030 or 2035 and it will be fixed

          If you don’t do that then everything will be designed with the existence of cars in mind

          Even today they are building new roads, you go to a sub division and there are roads in front of every house

          • jaschen@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            So people like me who can’t afford a job near my work have to ride a bicycle for 40 miles one-way for my work because someone in the past made home zoning impossible to scale the population growth.

            Please tell me why I have to suffer and those fuckers who is camping in those expensive unattainable homes get to enjoy their home values?

            Why do you want people like me to suffer more than I already do by having to drive 80 miles a day?

            • ILikeBoobies
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              10 months ago

              The point is you won’t fix that if there are cars

              Why would you suffer from an issue that only exists because of cars if there weren’t cars?

              • jaschen@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                I disagree. Plenty of countries have converted highways to bike lanes successfully and continued using their cars.

                • ILikeBoobies
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  As his concern points out why that won’t work

                  How many of those countries are as wide as us