As for the energy requirements and the associated CO2 output with all that production and recycling... burn baby burn. Or should that be "burn mother Earth burn"?

Covid-19 has made me forget that IMO we have about 20 years of comfortable life on this planet. Yeah yeah the human race will go on, but you and I will probably die of heat exhaustion some time in 204x...

Recycling aluminum is more energy efficient than making new aluminum. At this scale, I can imagine recycling this metal into new bicycles could be more efficient than fixing and distributing old bicycles.

Honestly I wish they had done proper market research before ordering bikes (that cost CO2 to make and distribute). Does any SV company do that any more? I'm guessing not; they see someone offering scooter rentals, they order a few thousand from China, they flood the market. Will it be profitable trying to compete with the others? "Who knows, but hey, we got VC money to burn!".

> Recycling aluminum is more energy efficient than making new aluminum.

But building these bikes didn't magically skip the making part.

I think we will find someway to commit suicide as a species in the next century but I don't think any projection has many people dying of heat exhaustion anywhere rich enough to have AC.

What are the projections on our food supply dying of heat exhaustion?

That's a not a big problem for the farming mega corps. Some of their land will be fine, some of it will get worse and maybe with luck some of it will get better as you go further toward the north. It's a big deal for small farmers in developing countries where all of the land suddenly becomes unusable.