To fightclimate change, we need to start biking like the Dutch
Photo by Erhan Demirtas / NurPhoto via Getty Images If people around the world were as enthusiastic cyclers as they are in the Netherlands, we could cut an impressive amount of planet-heating pollution. The Dutch use bicycles to get around more than folks in any other country, cycling about 2.6 kilometers (1.62 miles) a day.
If that was the trend across the world, it would slash 686 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution a year, according to the authors of a new study published this week in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. That's enormous - roughly equivalent to erasing one-fifth of CO2 emissions from passenger cars globally in 2015.
That's enormous
Cleaning up pollution from transportation is a huge piece of the puzzle when it comes to slowing down the climate...