Bicycle riders worse for the environment than car drivers?

[mgarl10024]

I've not read the full report (PDF linked to by this article), but I found this article quite amusing.

http://news.mongabay...0722-bikes.html

 

[cyberknight]

A professor is he?

He should know better than to release assumptions without fully working through all the data , should i get my brother with a phd in maths + chemistry ( hes a professor at Durham uni ) to send him the facts ?

 

[Yellow Fang]

From a quick skim of the abstract, his argument is that people who live longer on average, such as cyclists, cause more environmental damage by virtue of living their consumerist lifestyles. Therefore, if you cycle in a really reckless, dangerous way, you will benefit the environment. See if you can kill a Porsche Cayanne driver in the same accident.

 

[slowmotion]

The Prof. has a point though, doesn't he? Anyway, anything that challenges dogma, even if the challenge is wrong, has to be a good thing, surely?

 

[Yellow Fang]

It is a point, but it's a bit like Judge Death's point in the 2000AD comic: people commit sin; kill everyone and you stop sin.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It is a point, but it's a bit like Judge Death's point in the 2000AD comic: people commit sin; kill everyone and you stop sin.

That's fine as long as the last murderer left standing kills herself.

(Of course it could be himself, but I thought I'd undermine preconceptions.)

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The Prof. has a point though, doesn't he?

Not really, it's complete crap in multiple ways, and it's been critiqued to death already.

 

[Beardie]

The logical conclusion of this idea is that we should try and die young, to avoid troubling the planet. Hardly the counsel of merry optimism, is it?