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walkit.com helps avert looming threat from floating elephants


Submitted by jamiewallace on March 2, 2006 - 17:09.

The London Borough of Sutton website helpfully provides visitors with the following statistics:

"The average car (based on a 4 seater family car) emits 4 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year. In December 2004, there were 31 million cars on the roads in Britain. That means 31 million cars emitting 124 millions tonnes of CO2.

Hard to imagine such high numbers?

To help, imagine an African elephant. An adult male weighs about 4 tonnes. That's the equivalent of the CO2 emissions of one car.

Now imagine 31 million African Elephants floating over our heads."
I struggle to imagine 1 floating elephant, let alone 31 million. I've never quite understood the whole 'tonnes of gas' thing. To me it's as incomprehensible as 'yards of water' or 'pints of wood'.

I think I got a C in O level physics.

But if walkit.com is needed for the impending floating elephant threat, we're ready to help. global warming | climate change | carbon dioxide


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tonyplant

March 2, 2006 - 18:03

Grief, Jamie! If we had 31 million African elephants floating over the UK, wouldn't they block out the sun so much that:

  • I wouldn't be able to see anything (including the elephants)
  • crops would fail
  • there'd be so much social unrest the inherent menance of 31 million African elephants would be neither here nor there.

I've been experiencing so many Tube disruptions on my recent visits into London that I've taken to using Walkit to guide me to my destination, wherever possible. Nice work. I've just finished posting about allostasis which suggests that social policies (like transport) have a role to play in promoting our resilience and protecting us from disease. I can see how a policy that supported Walkit would be a genuine contribution to general well-being.



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