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Ride a bike to help fight climate change... but worsening climate change will cause fewer people to ride bikes. (lemmy.ca)
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It was a shower thought for me this morning, after having seen all these record temperatures being broken around the world.

But, if it gets too hot to cycle, then people won't. And if they aren't cycling, they may start driving again, which compounds climate change even further.

Does this worry anyone else?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

global climate change

Yeah, this one takes far more time to solve, but as individuals, we can still have some sway!

A vegan cyclist, for example, who doesn't fly or spend time on a cruise ship can hit several major contributors to greenhouse gases with little effort. If they use green energy, that's another major industry down. How they decide to shop can tackle a few more.

Who they vote for can also impact those areas that they have no direct influence over (i.e. certain manufacturing industries of raw materials).

This is all very easy to do on an individual basis, and don't affect one's quality of life, but multiply that by a million or a billion people and we WILL see a positive change.

The hard part is convincing someone to make easy changes to their life. ๐Ÿ˜ฉ