Video: Remy Metailler Urges You to Ditch Disposables
Being a pro rider is awesome but it can leave a big impact on our planet. We fly to different countries to race our bikes, drive to ride new trails every day. Our equipment is usually made in Taiwan, shipped across the world twice before it gets to us… At the end of the day, it’s a job and nearly any job or activity leaves a mark on our beautiful planet.
However, there are plenty of little things that every day we can all do together to reduce our impact. #ditchdisposables is one of them. Basically, it is the idea of stopping or reducing the use of disposable or single use products, such as paper or plastic cups.
I feel fortunate to be able to communicate with such a vast amount of people, and I have chosen to use my social media as a vehicle to promote a positive message on something I’m passionate about.
It’s costless and effortless to get involved and I believe that if we all do it, it will make a difference.
Thank you Camelbak for supporting this project. I sincerely hope that people will see this message and understand the importance of it.
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The other point to note is that this isnt just about carbon emissions, its about micro plastics in the oceans and a million other impacts related to single use!
The impact of an individual doing one less flight, using reusable coffee and soda cups, water bottles instead of plastic bottles, not using tear offs, doing less driving etc has a big impact both as an individual and as a wider movement.
Not possible? Look at what the UK has done with plastic bags in the last 5 years, look at what it is doing removing plastic straws from restaurants and bars. The more we try, the more possible these things become and the easier they become. The more we put up barriers and dont look harder at ourselves, the harder we make this stuff. As Henry Ford said 'Whether you think something is possible or not, you are probably right'.
First off you didn’t buy an alu frame because you are a fkng Green Peace warrior. Oh what a sacrifice to ride an alu Giant Reign or Stumpy instead of a carbon Bronson, oooh, I can only imagine how hard it was for you.
Second: that bike is not just a frame. Fkng Pole made by Finnish Green Fairies or a Commencal made by Andorran Beavers is dressed up with many components, some of which take much bigger toll on environment than the frame. Suspension fork is a good example. Then, how manufacturing is performed in relation to environmental factors is everything, no matter the material. How do you know Commencal runs a super clean factory that doesn’t spill oils or paint straight into a river? You don’t.
All these “shocking news” are good to have but make sure you don’t use them to feel better about sitting on your arse. Recreational empathy is a fact, humans do get such information in and then feel as if they did something good, just because they got touched by it. It’s a documented mental process.
The world will outlive us all. 80% and 70% of all species died in the past, and look what has come back.
It is not nature or the world where we care about, it is about our own survival. We, and even the greenest junkies, are the biggest egoistic hypocrites ever!
- Loose leave tea over tea bags. Many brands of tea bags just contain the tiny rolling residu, not proper big leaves. I think the best loose leave tea is cheaper per cup of tea than the cheapest tea bags.
- Dual edge razor blades over all these modern multi-blade plastic-metal assemblies that are hard to recycle. Admitted a dual edge razor blade is still a disposable but at least it is only steel. Much easier to recycle. I just bought 200 blades for under 10 euros on the market. What do those modern blades set you back? I haven't tried an open blade yet for shaving though.
- Shaving soap over those pressurized shaving foam cans.
Admitted all these products still come with packaging so it doesn't completely do away with disposables but I feel it definitely cuts back on them and arguably gives you a better product. Not saying it is for everyone but I feel these "old fashioned" options are being overlooked these days because of the way the modern alternatives are being marketed.
Aluminium and steel Frames require a lot of energy to be made, but, they're not made out of plastic, they hardly produce any waste whereas carbon frame production DOES ALOT, and, most important, they have a really high recycling rate. Our Oceans are not filled with Metal Bike frames. I'm not saying they are better, just not as bad as carbon.
You can't recycle carbon, you can grind that shit and make I don't know, Carbon bricks out of it, but it won't become carbon fiber again. You are right that our frames are not the biggest issue in all this. An Airbus Wing will probably give like a couple frames or something, but still, it is a part that we could do and also a piece to the puzzle.
Also, back in the day you bought a bike and had that thing for years, now I see 12 year old riding around on high End bikes even my Dad was dreaming about when he was little.
Like I said, It will all fail to our need to consume. Cars, travel, Food, packaging, and the individual need for "freedom" as they call it.
Also using the UK as an example "look what we have don banning plastic straws" are you kidding me??Plastic Straws are not even the tip of the Iceberg. Half of your people voted for dudes that deny climate change is human made ffs!
I say do what you can and try to do more! We as individuals can do a lot, but the big guys in big companies, politicians, thats where stuff needs to happen. f*ck plastic straws, plastic packaging all together should be banned!
Either we find a way of humanely controlling the global population, or the planet will do it for us inhumanely.
Also, polluting our planet is only possible from a small percentage, don't know how much exactly but not even 30%, controlling the population will not do shit.
Overpopulation is the reason why we notice the impact of pollution and it's also the reason why making things change is so difficult.
correct, most of the plastic in the ocean is from the fishing industry...
It would probably do us all good to stop eating meat and dairy...but I know I’ll never stop....but I also won’t be POLLUTING THE PLANET WITH MY OFFSPRING EITHER!
www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/livestock-feed-and-habitat-destruction
Do you not think that Orwell was onto something???
@piman: I don't know if ribeye is a daily occurrence for you, but if in all regards you went vegan but still allowed yourself a ribeye or two a week, it really would have a positive effect. I only replied because you suggested the only thing keeping you from being "plant based" is ribeye. Your move
Also per country, China is highest, but the USA is number 2. It should also be noted that germany is no6 which is crazy given how small we are in comparison.
Get rid of your cellphone and computer
Learn to walk barefoot. Walk everywhere barefoot.
Sell your car, home and belongings. Learn to forage for edible invasive plant species.
Shower when it rains.
Good job neanderthal!
www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2012/march/data-feature-how-is-land-used
They are grazing animals. Grass, shrubs, weeds etc. Naturally occurring plants.
A 5 year old understands this.
"...The Nature paper estimates that the carbon cost of chicken is six times higher than soya, while milk is 15 times higher and beef 73 times. One kilo of beef protein has a carbon opportunity cost of 1,250kg: that, incredibly, is roughly equal to driving a new car for a year, or to one passenger flying from London to New York and back..."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/ipcc-land-climate-report-carbon-cost-meat-dairy
Or take no or less children.
"...Researchers from Lund University in Sweden found having one fewer child per family can save “an average of 58.6 tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions per year”..."
www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-footprint-climate-change-damage-having-kids-research-a7837961.html
Flying less is also high on the list (Am I allowed one Whistler trip per year if I eat no meat all year and have no kids, and will never will. I like to think so... But in the end it is everybody's own call of course)
I know that they pollute but I have never seen that claim. You may be right...
Love to know more
Meanwhile microplastics found in Arctic ice.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-ice-microplastics-1.5246980
The greenest angels are the biggest flyers mostly.
They all own Ipad, Pod, Phone, Mac, Book.
They all want to see the most beautifull places in the world, so they destroy them with masses and make tourist paradises.
Here -> all wanna bike on the best spots, which in essence is killing nature and giving animals trouble.
I am just not this saint type. I accept what happens, we are like that. The rest is hypocracy.
Ask the green angels how much of their money and time they want to sacrifice to their socalled green dream!
They will have no answer.
If you care about nature, and really wanna do something, quit life. All the green dreamers want the good for the world ... like the new Green Dream Movement in USA. Laughable. The big industry is sitting behind them to get all the contracts and subsidies for the projects to be build. But never you hear that we have to use less electricity, stop innovation, use less electrical devices like iPhone, Ipad, Ibook, Imac and so on. Funny all the devices start their name with I
We in the north use 40-60x more energy than an average African! Why? Read the above again!
But hey no... the green dreamers want more innovation, create windmill industry next to our normal energy supply for example. All BS.
We are destructible as people. we are parasites. It is time for a big war to end it. Those peaceful Americans will deliver it. of their 200+ years existence they are 90% in wars. For the sake of peace you know
Sitting back eating popcorn and drinking beer. Bunch of hypocrites here!
Who is selling them this garbage and not doing anything to educate, or to clean there?
Right, US!
So make sure you know what you are talking about.
Now if you add to this the fact that every single mining and oil company implanted there is from "rich" countries, employs engineers from rich countries rather than locals, and get/got advantages by corrupting local politicians...
And the "even if it's little of us is a lot for them" does not work when you give to a village medicine that should be stored at -20 but there is not even a fridge in this village. Or when you give kids milkpowder so they don't drink the HIV infected milk from their moms, but they have to dissolve this powder in mud and die from infections as a baby instead of growing up as an HIV infected person...
I mean the clusterfck it is is not 100% our fault, but "we" greatly contributed to it, and some of things "we" do to help are just plain stupid and help only to clear our conscience...
All you say has nothing to do with the pollution that our products bring to their countries.
Ever been to Indonesia?
They throw plastic on the ground, the rain takes it and flushes it into the sea, rivers and so on.
Why?
Before they all wrapped everything in Coconut leaves. Then our corporations came.
All plastic packed products, but hey, no telling them what to do, or how to put up an recycling or garbage cycle.
Same like the banks, the people just dont understand it. They lived from day by day and from nature so all was disposable. Now they get plastic and treat it the same way.
Same how banks now put them full with lones... they do not understand that their moped is just living for 1 year and their lone will be there for the next 5 years.
Well Waki... well thought from your rich armchair ; )
Look, I come from Poland, I go there often, quite a large part of this nearly 40mln strong country does not give a freaking clue about environment. Poland is the biggest air polluter in Europe, if you look at air quality map of Europe there’s a big red square in the middle. People burn incredible sht to warm their houses and water: plastic, old tires, worst coal like crap that even Russians don’t want to use so they export it. At best, they burn gas from Russia. It is advised not to exercise outdoors in cities. Sorting garbage? Hahahah
Again, it makes no bloody sense to blame third worlds countries striking incontinence on fricking garbage disposal on Western corporations. That is like blaming parents for their 1yr old shitting it’s pants.
And you just again try to make your point over a totally not connecting subject.
30 years ago all said that oild would run out in 30 years. All the sudden USA became exporter of oil after being the biggest importer.
Oil is spraying out of the ground everywhere.
Why you think the OPEC is deciding to bring less oil to the market?
You can also type Air+pollution+map+europe
And ever gave this though some space: Normally the earty bounces most of solar energy and heat off. Now we keep it here and make warmth of it. What will that do?
Wind, pleasee dont even start.
Batterries, ever seen the devistation that lithium mining brings to the nature?
You are the moron!
My wife is Polish, I own land there and I think I know the country quite well.
What those damn Swedes are advising 2 years ago (wow 2 years and never happend again
That you speak the language, so what?
Does that make you right in this discussion? No... you talked a bunch of crap, nothing more.
So again, tell me the places and I will tell you if I was there and my experience!
Also my wife I will ask to see if there is any evidence in Polish to support your none sense!
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Now, it’s a safe bet that someone, sometime has told you that lithium mining is awful. That it requires big holes like that one that was used to make the copper pipes, and copper wires, and copper electronics you use every day. Someone told you that, even though it’s not true.
Why did they tell you that? Because someone knew just enough to know that lithium is used in electric car batteries, and that someone was enough of a dickweed to want to make electric cars look bad. Even though they knew they were lying.
Their words, not mine!
Assumption is the mother of all f*ck up's.
And I used the example of Poland to illustrate that if Poland is like that, imagine what less developed countries are doing. Good luck living in your Northern mental bubble. Environmental Mea Culpa all day long and respect other cultures. Guess what, most of those other countries don’t give a flying fck and think We are stupid. In the end we hear that we are giving home to terrorists.
The king then even moved because of that. Then there were almost none people compared to now.
The amount of people in Poland compared to Holland does not matter. Schiphol and the marine port Rotterdam are producing much more pollution. The 16 biggest ships produce the same amount of CO2 as all the cars in the world, did you know that?
Also Shell is selling all chemical waste mixed with oil to burn in the ships, loads of info on that too.
Poland is nothing compared to Holland in pollution.
That is, if you see CO2 as pollution, which I am not.
Holland too had a load of coal and still have. Germany same!
You talk rubbish about your own home country, Polish people despise people like you. Runaway lefty.
How can you even talk about your home country like this while they only are out of communism for a few decades, while the Germans took over most of the industry for a penny. How can you expect them to heat their houses on modern techniques while earning almost nothing.
You are no Polish person, you are a traitor who ran to the enemy (Swedes which invades Poland several times) and now is pointing his finger from the rich Sweden to poor Poland that they are not performing on the same level. Shame on you Waki!
And no... you are completely wrong about this. Do your research before you spill your oral blubber over this website.
So sorry buddy, good luck with accusing others of your own treats. Your talk is way cheaper than mine.
So educate yourself:
www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2018/11/mapped-europes-most-and-least-polluted-countries
And I know the difference between those populations, cause I live there stupid!
You are a traitor of your own country, you piss over Poland from your Swedish luxury chair with all kind of morals. Get lost drug addicted moron!
Also civilians are not even close to producing the same amount as industry. You clearly have no freaking clue where you talk about right?
A taking off Boeing 747 uses the same amount of fuel as 1000.000 cargo trucks. There you go smarty! Oh and our government has decides to take in an extra 50k flights a year
You have no clue, you are just a traitor of your home country and all your points are invalid, made from your ultra lefty luxury chair. In a country that is soon to be a extreme muslim state. Well done getting the second rank in rapes of the world btw
And you think that the little pollution that wood, coal and gas fires of houses will pollute more then that?
You are really not so smart huh?
Have you ever thought about the Ruhr Area in Germany? Why the Rijn is the most plastic polluted river in the world? Why the air quality meters in The Hague are removed because they were always showing the most polluted air where the scale could get?
Man you are soooooo uneducated on topics where you want to have discussions. You think you can overrule a person with a big mouth, but in fact you have no real knowledge about the topics
Traiter of your own country, now being at the rich enemy and starting to throw rocks at your own people. Go be ashamed of yourself.
And your comparison is again BS
www.denhaag.nl/nl/In-de-stad/Natuur-en-milieu/meten-haagse-luchtkwaliteit.htm
Unfortunately article and related reports are in Dutch, but from what I could see the air quality is good and improving. It seems to have been a huge research with a lot air quality meters so I can imagine they can't leave them installed permanently. They're probably owned by that research agency (Bureau Blauw) and they take them with them when they move on to their next job. That said, it seems like air quality is still being measured in some spots.
www.airqualitynow.org/comparing_home.php
Obviously this is quite short term (I haven't dug deeper in that website) but from what I can see it appears like the air quality in Amsterdam (near Schiphol airport), Rotterdam (near the harbour and which also has an international airport) and The Hague (the other city you mentioned) are quite acceptable. I can't find much about Krakow and Zakopane though.
I never said our air is not acceptible. I said something different -> We pollute more (if you wanna call it like that cause I dont believe in CO2 pollution) then Poland. Cause WakuWaki said Poland was the biggest polluter in Europe and that people could not sport outside cause the air is too dirty.
He is talking none sense all the time!
Traitor of your nation!
CO2 was 11x higher before and the earth was far greener. The earth is greening the last 30 years.
You start another stupid argument with not enough knowledge of the subject. It will be wise to pick a less educated victim for your BS arguments.
I am in no way saying that I am better, YOU are moron. I don't believe in the BS of air pollution by CO2 at all.
It is a pure hoax to get money out of the pockets of the civilians again and keep the poor countries poor. Otherwise, if the problem was really so big? Why are all the so called clean countries not putting all their money into the polluting countries to get them up to speed huh? Go figure dummy.
Everywhere so called scientists of the green order are being caught with fraude. Remember the Hockey Stick?
The biggest scam in history is the green movement.
It is a pure hoax to get money out of the pockets of the civilians
Holy f*ck!
Come with arguments please cause I blow you out of the water with facts
Facts baby, show me facts
These highly educated scientists have all the facts and the ability to collect data from all kinds of sources that the public could never retrieve.
Anyone that doesn't recognise that there's a serious issues with human caused/human accelerated climate changed is either poorly educated, a schill, in the pocketbooks of the dino industries or government/lobbies, entirely selfish and unable to see beyond their own part of the world, or gullible as f*ck.
Which are you?
73.
Does that sound like a global consensus? And the question wasn’t, are humans responsible for climate change, it was worded “some” (no specified amount) of climate change. What if the question was, do you think solar radiation/electromagnetism are the main drivers of the Earths climate, and they all said yes (which they would be dumb not to). Doesn’t sound quite so clear cut now does it?
Here’s a few more facts. There has been little to no warming in legacy, rural thermometer readings, in fact, in North America the 1930’s was by far the hottest decade on record. What happened was from the 2000’s onwards the IPCC didn’t like the fact that temperature readings were not increasing so they moved many rural thermometers to urban heat sinks to correlate with the prediction models. Here’s another, PPM Co2 in the Cretaceous period was over 1000, yet more species were alive than ever before or since. And since Co2 was so high, how did it get back to 260PPM in the Holocene? Ummm tricky that one.
And what about solutions? If humans are the main driver of climate change then by far the most obvious thing to do would be to limit birth rates as China did so successfully for a few decades. Unfortunately you can’t tax as many people and redistribute the wealth then can you?
I strongly suggest you do some research yourself and ignore the scientists at the IPCC who’s research funding depends on them promoting the obvious agenda.
Who is profiteering from this climate change propaganda?
It is however clear who is profiting from the production, distribution and sales of the oil and gas industries products and those trying to discredit climate change?
Human population control.. they need to start in Squamish.. its really out of hand here
The climate change industry is worth billions per annum. An industry invented out of nothing! The oil is going to be used regardless - plastics, aviation, etc. But now we have vast solar, wind, battery industries too. Many of which have legacy fossil fuel company investment.
It’s an absolute racket and the public has been railroaded. Look at the language being used, “climate denier” just like holocaust denier eh? It’s like a religion. As Feynnman said, if there is an unquestionable subject in science, it isn’t science.
Seems reasonable to believe we cant continue to pollute at the current rate though surely.
We’re going to pollute at current rates. China, Indonesia, India, etc are just getting going.
My feeling is a trace gas that’s essential to life on earth is insignificant compared to deforestation, toxic herbicides and micro plastics in marine environments. General ecosystem collapse. Climate change, be that the next ice age or global increase in temp, common in interglacial periods like the one we’re on now, may cull humans but we’ll leave the place a toxic wasteland.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSrjAXK5pGw
Wow you are really so dumb. Just swallow what the MSM is telling you huh? ;')
My lady is doing her thesis on Climate Change and the BS behind it. 4 years of study and hard work. You cannot even grasp what lies you believe in.
If Co2 was the problem, then your whole country would stop. Even the fat people there produce too much CO2.
A few articles you wanna see:
From a really dumb man: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiKfWdXXfIs
A woman who already warned years ago about IPCC: youtu.be/U5weFQYBL5w
Growing ICE mass at the poles (NASA) www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
Greening the earth (CO2) NASA: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
I can go on all day, nooblets. You know nothing about facts. You know how to pick a fight only.
If you are to dumb to just follow the money, you are just another sheep. Good luck with that dummies.
Maybe pick a fight with a dead chicken next time, it's the only you can win.
Yet here were are arguing whether Poland is the biggest air polluter in Europe (its 4th, sorry, but levels are almost equal to the ones above, then it drops quickly) poles also fly a lot as you may have noticed... all that is irrelevant. Because we are in the same boat. Apart from flight shaming. I even started this stupid argument by saying that I hate green lefties distorting the image and making it worse for everybody.
PhD of your wife, well, calm
Down. My wife has PhD too and well I would not put too much attention to it. In most cases it’s like Master Thesis just a bit less infantile. It’s like me getting position of project manager, almost anybody can do it, you just move along man. It takes much more than PhD to talk about facts and truth, that’s all I am saying. With all due respect...
You have no argument at all, no evidence no in dept knowledge you show.
Just some meant to be funny words.
Clearly havent watched the vids also. Stupido
Poles fly a lot, from what money smart ass?
We as rich countries fly much more. Air pollution my ass, CO2 is no air pollution.
You havent watched the links I put here. It shows only how narrow minded you are. No evidence, no proof you put here but some hollow words.
You are a traitor of your home country, throwing rocks at them and only visiting your family 4 times a year.
You cannot compare your wife to mine cause they get a same degree, nice try! Their research neither. It shows only how your brain works, easy connections, no thinking.
You try to say something about the level of research of my wife does without any information at all.
Moron!
Go back to Poland and help to build up your country, instead of hiding in a rich country and throwing rocks at your birth place.
Adios lefty bastardo!
The "stupid guy" in the YouTube video believed (1) that there is a global warming, (2) that it is caused by humans. Also (3) he does not know shit about climate science as he said himself, and his only criticism is about the the fact the toxic environment surrounding the debate prevents honest research on the topic. He only switched to a more "radical" point of view after he started to get paid by a lobby that negates climate change in 2014 (GWPF).
Again the big problem with people like you, if when they just read the headlines without trying to look deeper. Instead of playing with your middle finger, try opening a book about scientific theory and tell your gf that you don't write a thesis trying to prove something you deeply believe is true (because it has to fit your political view) , but you build an hypothesis based on existing facts and challenge it with experiments (even if the outcome is unpleasant).
Greening the earth (CO2) NASA: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
"While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change. The gas, which traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere, has been increasing since the industrial age due to the burning of oil, gas, coal and wood for energy and is continuing to reach concentrations not seen in at least 500,000 years. The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events."
Growing ICE mass at the poles (NASA) www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”
Even if you fart you have influence.
And that is how the 97% bogus started. They count all scientists who say we have influence, and kept out who did not answer. Now they make it like they all agree.
Btw, he is 93 years old, retired and does not need any of the bullshit money you talk about. It is also typical that mostly retired professors are sceptical to the green lobby leftards.
Another yankee doodle whistling the leftard tone, I could not care less
Stop flying around, stop using suv‘s and pickup trucks (if the north american continent would have gas prices like in Europe, people would maybe start to think, yet they complain...), stop buying the latest plastic outfit every year just because, stop using carbon frames, bla bla bla....there is so much to do, but it will all fail to our need to consume.
I‘m working in the industry for 10 years, the way thinks are looking right now, we‘re all F....ed. And please, stop thinking bikes are Co2 neutral. They are not, riding them is, but thats it.
Add to that its been 104-106 the last week here in houston.
Not sure how much hope we have. We are all distracted by being overworked, by instant gratification through mobile devices, by editorials pretending to be news, by facts no longer being true or false but opinions that are supposed to be all equal.
Looks like Humanity is in a pickle.
Shovel, bike, dirt, family, friends; all we really need. Here’s to going down in flames!
I feel you, I think it's been the warmest June and July in the history of recording weather data worldwide, people that say it's not real or human made are just idiots.
My daughter was born 1,5 years ago, I look into her eyes and really get a bad feeling about the future I will leave her.
His exit was smart and he now has the life he wants. It's clear he is a granola dude anyways, so who cares if his lower carbon footprint argument is a little flawed. Probably makes more effort than most, and has had impact on others' lives...more than most of us can say.
The same is for temperature. (There is a correlation between shrinking and growing population.) If it is cold it is not so easy to survive than in conditions with more sun hours.
I think for the IPCC is public relation more important than research. They are a political organisation.
Next you’ll be saying that in the mid 1930’s the US was hotter than it ever has been and thousands died from heat exhaustion. Or that the IPCC has systematically been moving rural thermometers to urban heat sinks in recent decades for readings to correlate with their useless model predictions...
That said, don't pull this article out of context. It wasn't about the greenhouse effect. It is about reducing waste. And instead of powerlessly point at others, look at what you can do yourself. Cut back on disposables.
As for clothing, it is the washing of synthetic clothes that flushes small synthetic fibers into the sea and contributes to the plastic soup. If you don't want that, wear clothes made of natural fiber. Wool, hemp, bamboo, cotton... The options are right there. It is up to us the consumers to buy the right stuff and eventually the industry will step up and give us more options.
Ps. A collegue just mentioned going to Antarctica on holiday and I nearly had a fit! Escaped to Pinkbike for a sec
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-06-01-new-estimates-environmental-cost-food
I believe that the flying issue only takes into account co2 production but a plant based diet also accounts for decreased water use, land use, deforestation and soil pollution. Absolutely we need to do more than just eating plant based diets but it is currently believed to be the biggest change an individual can make.
I completely agree that the meat industry is a massive problem, and we need to change and avoiding meat and dairy products is a good way. But regarding impact, we can’t compare Brazilian-rainforest-destroying-long-distance-transport meat to meat from your local farmer. Just as we can’t compare the CO2 impact of local spuds to avocados.
All I am saying, become a vegan is not going to save us on its own.
i have no issues with veggies btw that seems quite logical to me on moral grounds.
vegan on the other hand are moronic, what is the difference in picking an apple or milking a cow? its both a natural product that doesn't harm the production device (tree/Cow)
I have had a dinner that was nothing but meat, many times over the past few years. I think not flying is easier for me to accomplish, but won’t have anywhere near the impact as me cutting back on meat intake.
I also talked to a girl a couple months ago, she did studys about "What would really be asustainable way of eating" (sorry for my english) and it showed we don't even have to be vegan if we can't live without, I think it was:
- 4 Days a week Vegan
- 1 Day Meat
- 1 Day Fish
- 1 Day Eggs
We've grown up to have everything available all the time anytime anywhere, just look how crazy cheap meat is in germany?? Even in the US Dairy and Meat are more expensive, it's pathetic!
And yes, Sweden needs to invest drastically into its rail system. Sometimes it is great, like Stockholm-Gothenburg is rather fast now, but I was going to go to Umeå the other day and it would have been over 6h.
But in Sweden at least rail usage has gone up and flights down, which is good and hopefully we will invest more into rail.
Milking a cow wouldn't harm the cow only if the cow were your own and you were caring for it well, as soon as money and mass production gets involved, the abuse comes out real quick.
Also in order to make the cow produce milk, you have to inseminate it, have it give birth and do something about the calf, since you can't have it drinking that milk (they usually get killed).
It's bad enough we kill animals and keep them in generally terrible conditions ...But to force them to breed for continued killing and raping (milk) is another level of nastiness
And to those who say that veggie burgers taste terrible.. They're mostly right. But with enough demand, science can make anything taste like anything so there will eventually be decent meat and dairy alternatives
Sorry for rant but the guy who said getting milk from a tree is only as damaging as picking an apple off a tree is misinformed
Mate, really, give this a read, no offense but some facts you need to get straight here:
www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth
No offense dude, but get those facts straight if you wanna get into this:
www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth
Humans only need enough protein to maintain a positive nitrogen balance. The higher bioavailability of animal proteins means we don’t have to consume near as much (grams) to maintain a positive nitrogen balance, compared to plant based proteins. Also there is more essential and nonessential micronutrients within the animal products which means a huge advantage per gram of food. Less in, more used, more nutritious, and less waste. Also in regards to bodybuilders and power lifters, they are typically on the sauce, ped users actually need less protein relative to their body mass than a natural athlete. They over consume just because bro science from the 90’s won’t die.
The thing to do is reject the superfluous things and focus on essential things. I have 3 bikes, 2 numerous helmets, a drawer full of gloves and kneepads and so on.
@remimetallier is a legend for putting this concept forth because it plants a seed, which hopefully grows into a movement ( look at those Drink Water boys for instance), and then, just maybe, the industry starts to provide sustainable alternatives
Shit- let's do this for the groms who might not even be born but deserve the eternal beauty of ripping trail just like we get to now.. .
Ditching that would sure improve your green credentials Remy and I’d definitely be interested to hear if you can make a greener alternative work with your lifestyle. If you could ditch the truck the rest of us weekend warriors would have no excuse.
My point is that 20mpg is still a lot of fuel to burn. Even switching to an SUV, or better a station wagon, with a rack could halve the fuel use. It seems to me that saving a gallon or two a day of fuel burnt would be worth it.
The issue unfortunately is that Camelbak can sponsor a video encouraging people to buy their multi use bottles, but no one wants to sponsor a video saying:
“hey: drive less, drive a smaller car, change you car less often, change your bike less often, buy less stuff”
Some very important brands like Volvo are dropping diesel altogether.
If you really want to make a change, you have to change your daily routine. Public transport and e-bikes are the way to go, imo.
Public transportation in the area I live (suburb of Seattle) is utterly atrocious. There is loads of improvement that needs to be made but is being greatly held back by big oil. So much is fighting against us.
Like you said the best thing we can all do is change out habits and plan around being more environmentally friendly. What I think this video did a good job of showing is that you can take small steps to push change, everyones small contribution adds up over time.
www.dw.com/en/to-fly-or-not-to-fly-the-environmental-cost-of-air-travel/a-42090155
You see here in Holland we have some trails (There are hills. but theyre hard to find
Same goes with everything disposable. If you can do with a more sustainable alternative why not. It should be within reason ofcourse. But do this for yourself. For me? It all starts with how much trouble it is. A good start is to throw your waste in the correct bins. If i dont have to i dont use disposable stuff. Only if there is no good alternative. i dont make this a religion of some sort. One church is a handfull allready if im honest. Just enjoy doing it. That is all.
I'd hope that he stays with it, that it's not just news of the day soon to be forgotten and in some small part may generate some momentum and lead towards less packaging (see GoPro as a main offender), different tear-off materials etc
One UK mag has recently changed from the usual plastic packaging used for subscription mags sent in the post, to something similar made from potato starch after people raising the issue on their forum.
Or we could sit around waiting for an eco-warrior on a white horse to save the planet whilst we burn through another busy day being good little 'consumers'. An easy strategy, albeit incumbent with higher levels of risk.
If you are serious about making changes, try these www.bbc.com/future/story/20181102-what-can-i-do-about-climate-change.
So, join me; buy less, a lot less, because the psychologists can tell you it doesn't make you happier. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_behaviour). I have found no reduction in the width of my smile since I removed myself from trying to keep up with the latest and greatest. I really do genuinely recommend it.
You are always welcome to join me in not buying that new bike. Let's go riding on what we have. We shall have a blast!
Whilst both issues need to be resolved, maybe if we can collectively solve/mitigate to some extent one of the many seemingly insurmountable challenges in the world today it could give us the impetus to solve/mitigate to some extent the others.
Stopping single use plastics won't prevent the ecological disaster that is anthropogenic climate change. It will, however, help to mitigate the ecological disaster that is plastic waste.
One ant is quite insignificant - all ants collectively amount for 20% of the animal biomass on the planet.
(source: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.12251)
It may be the case that cups and straws outweigh pickup trucks on a global scale.
Smoker: "You really shouldn't smoke it's bad for you and the planet".
PB Commenter: "Everything you say is invalid, you're a smoker. Maybe if you were Mahatma Gandhi you could persuade me."
Mahatma Gandhi: "Don't smoke, it's bad for you."
PB Commenter: "Your views are too extreme for me, your argument is invalid."
Here are a few examples:
- ditch disposables
- ride share, pedal to the trail head, work, grocery stores..
- buy local
- buy products made of recycled materials as much as possible
- eat much less animal products / go vegan
Plenty we can all do. Most of those don't cost more, create social opportunities and are healthier.
They are 1000 problems in the world. We can't fix all of them, but at least we can try to sort out some.
Think twice before being negative about such an important topic.
Peace out Internet.
Small things matters!
We all have an impact on our environnement
We all have the power to have a positive impact
Its all start by small things like reuse, reduce, recycle
Do your best to buy local.
Bike industry (like many other industry) is based on consumerism and have a lot to do to improve their carbon footprint.
Can we have one standard !?! Like it sucks I must throw my derailleur to garbage cause i cant find the little part broken from my 2 year old derailleur and non compatible with a new one...
Hopefully, its greener to ride a bicycle than a motocross!
Are you ready to change your habits for the future of next generation?
So your kids or little kids can enjoy to do mountain bike too!?
Did you try to reduce your meat consumption ?
Did you know that every animal produce is link to deadly diseases?
Did you know you will never miss of any nutrients going vegan?
Im vegan since 4 years, just broke one of my toes during dh race. Never stop biking and working(I'm carpenter).
Doctors was shocked how fast I recover. No sign of fracture after 1 month. Last year, broke my collarbone on a bad big crash. 6 weeks after back on enduro racing.
Just saying every choice matter. And maybe plant diet will help you recover faster or live longer!
Start small, go big, have fun on your bike guys!
It’s no secret, things need to change. I don’t have the answers, but try to do my part in my daily life.
Bravo to anyone using their platform for a positive cause
But a lot of this could of been halted quite a few years back to a certain extent as there have been some good biodegradable plastics developed to replace the everyday ones we just casually use and dispose of.
The problem is money though isn't it ! And who makes the most profit out of it. why would they give that up, after all plastics are refined from crude oil, that's a large loss of profit to the oil companies/refiners/shareholders and even governments in taxes if we ain't using it.
It costs money to develop products, such as biodegradable plastics, and then to start changing the way we package every thing to use them, who's gonna want to fund that development when there all making healthy profits
The ones with all the money who have it want more of it, no matter what the cost.
Napisałem to jako ciekawostkę. Nie jest to brane pod uwagę, bo odpadku jest za mało.
Dodatkowo odpad to nie wszystko, wydzielone ciepło, transport, paliwo. Rzadko coś komentuje, a jak coś już napiszę to zawsze się dowalisz, zrobisz swoją interpretację i włożysz w moje usta jakieś wnioski z czapy. Podobnie było z jakimś artykułem o treningu.
Me: Sorry but I am taking a principled stand against all single use disposables.
Her: 3rd guy I’ve heard that one from this week.
Me: ????
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Recategorize 'Soylent Green' as a romantic drama.