Yo! Any countries having trouble imagining how to reduce greenhouse emissions (which I guess is just about all of you), listen up!
Inspire your lazy-ass public to ride bikes like the Danes and you will take a big chunk out of climate change, or so says this study:
If all Europeans bicycled as much as the people of Denmark, the European Union could achieve up to one-quarter of its target for carbon emissions reductionsin the transportation sector by 2050, a new report says. According to the European Cyclists’ Federation, the average Dane cycles about 2.6 kilometers a day. If that rate were achieved across the EU, it would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 55 million to 120 million tons annually, or 5 to 11 percent of the EU’s overall emissions target, by 2020.
Wondering why that sort of logic has trouble in the land of the Big Mac (apart from the fact that our “leaders” scorn Europe)? The explanation is here.
The Earthist Chronicles 