It’s marginal gains all the way here but genuinely if you’re an omnivore the E-Bike might work out more enviromentally conscious

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    Does the emission calculation for the train and bus take into account that these modes of transportation usually transport more than one person at a time?

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      These type of calculations do indeed account for that. They often rely on local average occupancies so areas with good well used buses can be lower or areas of low utilisation higher

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        Which is actually another interesting thing about public and private transport. Doubling the trips by public transport does not double the emissions but doubling the number private trips does

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      typically these are per-passenger distance, but since it doesn’t have one guy in a car vs four people in a car there’s no way to know.

      also fuck “carbon footprint” anyway, the biggest culprits are corporations we should legislate or luigi into reducing their pollution.