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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
Only if your car uses 1 HP to carry an average person, or 3 for a strong, motivated athlete, and you limit your trips to your bike range. Regular bike use where appropriate can also save huge amounts of energy associated with sedentary health care, and make it far easier to choose tasty, nutritious food without too many calories. There are also huge energy costs from manufacturing cars and building roads for them.
Nothing is zero-impact. Even farming organic food displaces nature, and usually reduces overall biomass.
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It's all true, I often say ant think things like this. And whe I do so I sound cynical in my own ears
Very good to have
insight on these things, except it won't help you to decide what to do
You should shut these thoughts down before blowing up the whole human civilization with thermonuclear warheads
Anyway, I think it's better to use food energy this way than use a little bit less just to manufacture sh*t that we may not even use properly as a fertilizer like we should... but if we did it would may be even worse because of the chamicals that are in modern food... ok, ok, I finish...
edit. I may be totally wrong and we really should bomb at least 90% of ourselves out of this planet. Big impact once but much less sustained effect later.