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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This only applies if you assume people are minimizing the amount of calories they spend, but for people trying to maintain a level of physical activity, switching to an e-bike would mean adding some other exercise to compensate, and it comes out worse.
I'm gonna argue the % of people who compensate their e-bike trips with other means of exercise consciously is somewhere in the second point after the comma
Maybe so, but in that case this advice turns into “reduce your carbon footprint by cutting out exercise and becoming more sedentary” which I don’t think is a good strategy.
If we were doing that, we could outlaw treadmills, since they emit infinite CO2 per mile.