[emersonbiggins]

In short, yes, because they tend to be healthier, they live longer and consume more resources. Young die-off is good for the environment!


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Are Cyclists Destroying the Earth?

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By DAN MITCHELL
Published: July 22, 2006

KARL T. ULRICH, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has put forth a provocative theory. Traveling by bicycle, he argued in a recent paper, may cause more environmental harm than driving around in pollution-spewing, fossil-fuel-swallowing cars and sport utility vehicles.

How can this be? Bicyclists are healthier, he wrote, so they live longer. Over their lifetimes, they consume more energy than they save.

Among the “holes in this argument that you can drive a biodiesel-powered Hummer through,” wrote Andrew Leonard, in his blog How the World Works, at Salon.com, is that bicyclists in general are naturally inclined to be responsible consumers of energy, and more enlightened when it comes to environmental issues.

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[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'I')n short, yes, because they tend to be healthier, they live longer and consume more resources. Young die-off is good for the environment!

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'I')n short, yes, because they tend to be healthier, they live longer and consume more resources. Young die-off is good for the environment!

[Magus]

It begs the question of whether this "professor" is being...compensated...for this little statement by certain individuals...

Seriously, why else would this fool go out of his way to attempt to prove that cyclists are destroying the environment?

Maybe Santa didn't give him the right present, long ago...

[rogerhb]

Don't forget the methane emissions from the cyclists.

The question is why is he so narrow minded to focus on cyclists?

This theory should obviously include:

Bad: Welfare, healthcare, medicines, seat-belts, crash-helmets,police

Good: War,guns,violent-crime

He is obviously a minor academic not to be take seriously.