A car weighs over 1000 Kg but most times carries a human weighing less than 100 Kg.
90% of fuel – and emissions – are thus for transporting metal, plastic, and rubber.
When I tell this to my friends and acquaintances, they are seriously surprised. Some of them, devoured by instant guilt, fervently try to find a mistake in my data – surely, they can’t be spending all that money on fuel to transport stuff other than themselves.
Nada, there is no mistake.
Net Zero by Narsi
Insights and interactions on climate action by Narasimhan Santhanam, Director - EAI
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