More goodwill by Madison bicyclists is always good to see. The best thing bikies do in my opinion is that we CHOOSE to use a mode of transportation that does not burn fossil fuels, and thus does not add to the already extremely dangerous high concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in our atmosphere. A mode that does not emit dangerous fine particulates into the air we breathe the way motorized transportation does, making asthma attacks more likely in people who suffer from that disease, and is also quiet and seldom adversely affects wildlife, water and other natural resources (again, not like motorized transportation does!)..
Bicycling also doesn't hardly ever lead to the killing or injuring other people in our community, including children, pedestrians, and other bicyclists the way motorized transportation does! Bicycle travel also does not require massive paving over of the landscape, which requires the production of huge volumes of cement, both of these which also require the burning of more large volumes of more fossil fuels. Paving the landscape also usually removes vast amounts of green vegetation, which reduces the volume of carbon sequestration from that land area, compounding the skyrocketing volumes of GHGs in our atmosphere and oceans, which has already been manifested in untold negative effects all around the world, including massive hurricanes and typhoons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan, massive, costly and deadly flooding damage in northern and western Wisconsin in July and August, 2016 and other parts of the U.S. (Houston; North Carolina, others), to say nothing about the massively increased drought and vast acreages of forest land that continue to burn out of control in the Western U.S.(esp. California),http://www.ksbw.com/news/soberanes-fire-burns-70 600-acres-containment-at-55/41170400, and the loss of so many, many lives, in addition to the loss of economic livelihood in so many communities impacted by melting sea ice and glaciers, worldwide, the severity and extent of of such weather extremes are scientifically explainable only by human caused climate change, caused by the mounting accumulations of GHGs in the atmosphere and the warming and acidification of the world's oceans and large water bodies; all of such deadly weather conditions (heat waves being the most deadly of all global warming effects), all which have been scientifically predicted to worsen in future years as the volume and concentration of GHGs continue to rise with added burning of fossil fuels that heretofore have been trapped beneath the earth's surface in the form of coal, methane, and oil, including oil present in tar sands of Alberta and shale in the Western U.S.. It seems our community (and our state and country as a whole for that matter), and in particular, the many motorists who seldom, if ever, use motor-less transportation - give bicyclists little or no credit for choosing a more sustainable transportation mode than the automobile. Folks who choose to drive motor vehicles everyday, instead of walking or bicycling, and especially the rapidly increasing number of people who fly jet airplanes to distant locations, some almost regularly, are unfortunately doing so at all of our expense, dumping ever increasing volumes of pollutants (EPA says GHGs are pollutants), adversely impacting millions, potentially billions, particularly today's youth and those yet to be born, many and in the future, all the earth's animals, making living more costly and more intolerable and inhumane as this century continues to unfold. Much more credit is due the many Madison area bikies and others statewide and countrywide who choose NOT to drive motor vehicles, for whatever reason,or at least drive much less than the state average for individuals and/or families, and who don't fly jet airplanes during the year, which burn vast amounts of fossil fuel per passenger, especially in flying to distant places many miles away, only to return to their home destination, thus causing roughly the same amount of fossil fuels to be burned, and thereby adding to the painful, costly, and terribly unjust burden today's youth, and the many children yet to be born, but when born will have no choice but to live with the worldwide calamity that scientists have been predicting for decades now, which is becoming reality, due to accepted status quo of "business as usual" lifestyles which continues to remain the accepted norm today, despite it's being enormously immoral and unjust to our youth and future generations. The actions of many people, organizations and business today that are intrinsically dependent on fossil fuel burning (such as professional and many college and university athletic programs) are clearly causing pollution of the worst kind, by contributing to a mounting volume of GHGs, which remain in the atmosphere (and earth's oceans) for centuries, causing more deadly and costly weather extremes, vanishing human and animal populations in the areas of the planet most vulnerable to climate changes, rising seas, hotter weather diseases. Those who choose to pollute the atmosphere with the residuals of excessive fossil fuel burning and activities and diets that contribute to those residuals (ie., GHGs, fine soot particles ...) are seemingly getting a "free lunch". But that's not suppose to be possible under the rules of ecology, as told by scientists going back as far as the time of Charles Darwin and world explorers and thinkers and activists such as Alexander Von Humboldt and Henry David Thoreau. Listen to WORTFM radio in Madison, Wisconsin (89.9) for a proposed action plan for reducing GHGs, income inequality, poverty and other environmental "bads" and costs that are contributing to even greater havoc from our heavily fossil fuel burning economy and the almost unheard amount of U.S.spending on military weapons and exercises and the funding of militarization around the world, which also add to the problem of mounting unreported GHG accumulations and toxins in our environment this Monday on WORT's "Access Hour" (Aug. 15th, 7:00 - 8:00 pm CST), or at www.wortfm.org, for an hour of details about this proposal and complementary music, with special thanks due to WORTFM's many (but still not enough, according to the station's board of directors) financial contributors, volunteers, including the Access Hour's host Ken Rineer, who I'm sure seldom gets enough credit for the many fine programs I've heard on Monday's weekly Access Hour show. Mike On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:39 PM, via Bikies <[email protected]> wrote: > I was stopped at a traffic light this morning, when I noticed something on > the trunk of the car in front of me. Then I realized it was a purse. > I picked it up, and rolled up next to the driver's window, where I was > able to pass it to the owner. > > Try doing that in a car. > > (this is the second time I've done something this). > > --darin > -- > -- > darin burleigh > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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