> From: George Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well!! If EVERYONE would ... just DIE! Then we'd all be better > off, wouldn't we? Global climate change crisis solved and no more > air and water pollution (except for 6 billion rotting corpses, but > they're biodegrable after all). > > The author's analysis, of course, is totally and ridiculously > flawed. He does not account for the environmental and energy costs > of designing, producing, maintaining, and disposing of cars (and > bicycles), the auto infrastructure, or a myriad of other aspects of > the equation. > > > [snip] > > > http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/%7Eulrich/documents/ulrich-cycling-enviro-jul06.pdf > > > > The main premise of this article is that cycling doesn't generate > the > > energy savings that would be expected because the participants > live > > longer than sedentary people.
Not to mention, all those newly-healthy people will bring about considerably reduced need for the services of the medical industry, causing it to contract, and that could just send our whole economy into a tailspin. What will all those poor out-of-work pharmaceutical salespeople do? We must hate America, huh? --------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
