[FRIAM] Bike is the slow death of the planet

[Pieter Steenekamp]

Nick,

Having to choose between modern technology and what's good for the
environment is a false dichotomy. There are societies, like Denmark, with a
clear direction towards a good balance between the tension between the
modern industrial world and the environment.

Let me quote one of the replies on the social media where I got my original
bike quote from:

" Denmark is known as the city of bicycles and their economy is great! And
there are sales of bikes continually as a way of life generating big
streams of revenue and tax, bike lanes made and maintained giving
employment, basket equipment made for bikes for shopping and carrying
parcels... so they definitely do contribute to a great economy. They buy
lots of juice to drink when cycling as well as licences. The repair market
to bikes is also thriving as are the carriages and baskets that are
attached to the bikes. I think bikes are great!!  "

Pieter



On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 at 17:01, <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pieter,
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>
>
> So, unpack this a little.  Take it beyond irony.  See this piece that I
> am constantly flogging on friam.   Am I flogging a dead horse or am I
> flogging you WITH a dead horse.
> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development>
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>
> I ask this, as I am unwrapping a package of razor blades from amazon.
> Retail cost 8 bucks; delivered to me, in my hand,  in under 24 hours, for
> 5, saving ME an hour of travel, a gallon of gasoline, 5 minutes of
> chit-chat with the gormless clerk at CVS,  and three dollars.  Do we
> applaud Amazon or do we boycott it?
>
>
>
> Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
>
>
>
> N
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>
> Nick Thompson
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Pieter Steenekamp
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 7, 2021 5:17 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Bike is the slow death of the planet
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>
>
> I don't know who wrote this originally, I got it on social media:
>
> "Bike is the slow death of the planet ".
> A banker made economists think this when he said: ′′ A cyclist is a
> disaster for the country's economy: he doesn't buy cars or borrow money to
> buy. He doesn't pay insurance policies Doesn't buy fuel, doesn't pay to
> take the car to revision and repairs needed. Does not use paid parking. It
> doesn't cause major accidents. Does not require multi lane highways. He
> doesn't become obese
> Healthy people are not necessary or useful to the economy. They don't buy
> medicine. They don't go to hospitals or doctors. They add nothing to the
> country's GDP.
> On the contrary, each new McDonald's store creates at least 30 jobs,
> actually 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 diet experts and nutritionists,
> obviously as well as the people who work in the store itself ".
>
> Choose carefully: a bike or a Mc Donald? Worth thinking about
>
> PS: walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy a bike!
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