Bicycles an intregral part of resolving climate change

Research illustrates that businesses
 in bicycle friendly areas profit.

Bicycles will clearly be an integral part of resolving many pressing social and practical issues, among them climate change.

The importance of shifting to bicycles and making them an entrenched part of our daily lives is now measured in brute economic terms, with some concessions allowed for public health (again, considered through an economic filter), but there is a larger and more overriding matter that makes all other matters redundant.

Most methods of human movement are particularly energy and resource intensive (particularly the privately owned car) whereas the bicycle is, in the final analysis, neither.

Fossil fuels are the prime energy used by most human and freight movement infrastructures and yet the bicycle needs almost only human power.

Read the piece on The Conversation by a Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology from the Institute for Health and Ageing at the Australian Catholic University,  Jerome N Rachele  - “Do the sums: bicycle-friendly changes are good business.”