Cycling is environmentally friendly, but let’s not equate world championship to cycling as transport. The event itself must have a lot carbon footprint. Still, weird choice of event to protest, but I can see them doing what they can to get the publicity they need.
I hear this a lot, that “it’s not worth doing anything because of <insert reason here>”, or “well, the solution is not perfect so why bother?”.
Any improvement is better than nothing. If no one ever changes, nothing will ever change. Just because someone else is being worse, it doesn’t excuse you from being bad.
So yes, it’s a drop in the ocean, but at least it’s something. Little drops add up, and they make it harder for the real polluters to justify/excuse their actions.
Cycling is environmentally friendly, but let’s not equate world championship to cycling as transport. The event itself must have a lot carbon footprint. Still, weird choice of event to protest, but I can see them doing what they can to get the publicity they need.
I think its because of this: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/1915960
I guess big oil has nothing against cycling, as long as its the sport and not the mode of transport…
Same is true for almost every form of entertainment but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the truly big polluters.
Sources of entertainment have - by definition - more viewers and attention than Exxon’s office building.
I always find it odd when people claim that something is by definition. Whose definition?
Anyway, this event is promoting cycling and disrupting a cycling event does nothing to help further promoting any form of cycling.
I hear this a lot, that “it’s not worth doing anything because of <insert reason here>”, or “well, the solution is not perfect so why bother?”.
Any improvement is better than nothing. If no one ever changes, nothing will ever change. Just because someone else is being worse, it doesn’t excuse you from being bad.
So yes, it’s a drop in the ocean, but at least it’s something. Little drops add up, and they make it harder for the real polluters to justify/excuse their actions.