Is car a ridiculous way to travel? – Today’s CLIDEMY climate poll
Imagine someone tells you that the hand bag you carry will weigh 20 Kgs, while the stuff in it that you carry will weigh max 1 Kg.
You would consider that ridiculous – no one will have a 20 Kg container to carry a 1 Kg item.
But that’s precisely what a billion cars are doing today on the world’s roads. Each transports a human weighing 75 Kg, but a car weighs on average 1.5 tons (1500 Kg) – 20 times the “item” transported.
95% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 95% 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬. Even when 3 people are travelling in a car, this is 85%.
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Given the above, don’t you think car is a ridiculous way to travel?
Poll by: CliDemy – the Climate Academy – 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵 & 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵-𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺 2030. Help us do that!
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