Feature story - September 21, 2008
Thousands of cyclists joined a bike rally for World Car Free Day organized by Greenpeace with Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Thailand Cycling Club and Thai Health Promotion Foundation today to raise awareness on climate change and the need for personal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Bicycles modified to look like a bus with a banner “Take a Bus, Lead the Energy [R]evolution” led more than 300 hundred volunteers, supporters and celebrities riding under the Greenpeace banner which started from The Emporium en route to Thai-Japanese Youth Center.
Thousands of cyclists joined a bike rally for World Car Free Day organized by Greenpeace with Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Thailand Cycling Club and Thai Health Promotion Foundation today to raise awareness on climate change and the need for personal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Bicycles modified to look like a bus with a banner “Take a Bus, Lead the Energy [R]evolution” led more than 300 hundred volunteers, supporters and celebrities riding under the Greenpeace banner which started from The Emporium en route to Thai-Japanese Youth Center.
Thousands of cyclists joined a bike rally for World Car Free Day organized by Greenpeace with Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Thailand Cycling Club and Thai Health Promotion Foundation today to raise awareness on climate change and the need for personal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Bicycles modified to look like a bus with a banner “Take a Bus, Lead the Energy [R]evolution” led more than 300 hundred volunteers, supporters and celebrities riding under the Greenpeace banner which started from The Emporium en route to Thai-Japanese Youth Center.
Thousands of cyclists joined a bike rally for World Car Free Day organized by Greenpeace with Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Thailand Cycling Club and Thai Health Promotion Foundation today to raise awareness on climate change and the need for personal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Bicycles modified to look like a bus with a banner “Take a Bus, Lead the Energy [R]evolution” led more than 300 hundred volunteers, supporters and celebrities riding under the Greenpeace banner which started from The Emporium en route to Thai-Japanese Youth Center.
Thousands of cyclists joined a bike rally for World Car Free Day organized by Greenpeace with Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Thailand Cycling Club and Thai Health Promotion Foundation today to raise awareness on climate change and the need for personal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Bicycles modified to look like a bus with a banner “Take a Bus, Lead the Energy [R]evolution” led more than 300 hundred volunteers, supporters and celebrities riding under the Greenpeace banner which started from The Emporium en route to Thai-Japanese Youth Center.
The World Car free Day is intended to advance the economic,
social and environmental benefits of self-propelled or mass
transportation.
"Bangkokians use over 500 million liters of oil annually to
drive their cars. Each liter releases about 3.15 kilos of deadly
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And like the other dirty
addiction, coal, burning of oil not only pollutes the air we
breathe but the exhaust fumes of our cars are contributing to
climate change," said Tara Buakamsri, Campaign Manager of
Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
Combustion of oil for cars like burning of coal for energy has
made Thailand the seventh largest emitter of carbon dioxide in
Asia, emitting 4.2 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere per person
per year, more than in both China (3.8 tonnes) and India (1.2
tonnes), according to the UNDP.
"It is a now a well known fact that if the carbon dioxide
emissions due to our addiction for coal and fast cars is not
reduced Bangkok will see the worst effect of climate change sooner
than later. Personal action and behavioral changes are critical to
ensure a safe future for our children. We are calling upon all
citizens to be conscious of their carbon footprints and the first
step towards that is to reduce their car usage and use public
transportation instead," said Uaphan Chamnan-ua, Public Outreach
Coordinator of Greenpeace.
Thailand Car Free Day is an annual city event that Greenpeace
has been promoting to show how livable modern cities can be when
free from the noise, stress and pollution caused by cars. The
demand to combine improvements in the public transportation system
with regulations and incentives to encourage the use of
alternatives such as walking, cycling, and using mass
transportations is in line with Greenpeace vision of an Energy
Revolution, which is prescribing a shift from our dependence on
fossil fuels.
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