If we all cycled like the Dutch, global emissions would drop 700M tonnes
Allow me a little game: what the Dutch who do <i>most</i> of their trip by bike eat? Because today too many pseudo-ecologist claim the live at 0km, meaning they do anything in a small enough area to move just by feet and bike. HOWEVER they omit in their computing the other humans who work to serve them.<p>Time ago a friend claim he live at 0km and we start a little game: let&#x27;s show what you eat&amp;drink! The 0km bread bought from a local shop actually was made with a flower+the rest prepared by a local company roughly 800km away, with the flower itself from Ukraine, leavening agents from Turkey, salt from Spain. Oh that&#x27;s just the bread. The locally bought seasonal fruits, let&#x27;s say and apple came from north-est Italy, and I choose the apple as an example because they are normally collected one season <i>before</i> stored in a CO₂-saturated place and oxygenated a bit before going to customers-stores (so they look bright and big). If we try the locally bought &quot;fresh&quot; shrimp some are from India, some from Ecuador, they are fresh (in temperature sense) for sure, but seeing their color they are ALSO pre-cooked with a bit of steam before being packed and so on.<p>Personally having left (few years BEFORE covid) the dense European urbe for the Alps I change a bit my behaviors like I now bought not-that-small quantity of anything and stock them at home, it&#x27;s MORE comfy for me, just going to the garage opening some freezer&#x2F;wardrobes etc instead of going shopping just for a single item. The result is that compared I produce FAR LESS packages waste, I tend to eat more healthy foods and I even tend to pay most of the LESS. Stock them is also not that complicated at all, yes it might took a bit of time regularly, but it&#x27;s really a little bit, and a small investments in fridges&#x2F;freezer and so on. But again NOTHING really &quot;extreme&quot;. I have two cars, one diesel one electric, I refuel both at home, the diesel one with a 1000l liters jar with a simple tube+spilling pistol filled up casually by a tank truck, witch means I and the supply chain combined burn LESS fuel to resupply than those who resupply continuously with their own engines. Again, nothing really special. Diesel it&#x27;s not explosive, does not produce dangerous gases and can be stored for very long periods. Oh, and at any (regular) strike I never have to go wasting hours to resupply for having a bit of a very small reserve.<p>Long story short: PROBABLY (I can&#x27;t compute everything) the most sustainable way of living is being spread in large not too dense, not too little dense areas pushing a distributed economy coupled with an effective PUBLIC logistic platform (to avoid the old classic Rockefeller&#x2F;Standard Oil or now Amazon &quot;market distortions&quot;) where we can evolve, meaning the density is sufficient to interact, have a reborn economy of scale that&#x27;s now totally lost in cities, but not too much to impede redesign of anything, starting from residential buildings who can&#x27;t really evolve in dense cities in Green New Deal terms or even in mere &quot;they are EOL, we need to demolish them before they collapse&quot;, where there is room to evolve. Let&#x27;s say future drone deliveries, fly cars etc. ALSO such areas are FAR LESS problematic to handle in case of catastrophic events (not even extreme like a nuclear strike eh! Just mere floods, wildfires, earthquakes, landslides etc).<p>This probably live a big problem: too much population? That probably imply without having the gut to tell it directly that someone want to push &quot;waste&quot; humanity in modern slavery situations depicted as nice walled gardens, eco friendly etc. The issue is that such move can&#x27;t work well not only for those internees but for the humanity at a whole. We are a society, it&#x27;s normal to have rich and poor, but more than a certain level the result is a crash unhealthy for ALL.