Article 62PHE To fightclimate change, we need to start biking like the Dutch

To fightclimate change, we need to start biking like the Dutch

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Justine Calma
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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...

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