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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I feel like it's a mistake to consider human physical activity an energy cost tbh. I'm seeing this logic more and more in the wild — particularly wrt comparisons with LLMs — and... I mean it's kind of insanely evil, isn't it
I'll agree with this mostly but I'd call this useful information on account of people trying to compare E-Bikes to like an E-HMMV. Popular thing in german op-eds, at least
I think it's useful to consider only if from the perspective of how our diet (to which we are all mostly alienated from) impacts our ecology.
But that argument is one that can spiral into misanthropism if you let it go unwatched. And this graphic definitely does a shitty job at addressing the diet problem, and can come off like "humans are like stinky farty cows (derogatory)".