Wilderness is awesome, but try to find natural trails that nobody rides. Bring 10 friends there and it's not even wilderness anymore. A path, a trail, that has been built to attract people will attract tourists and that involves cars, planes, littering etc.. And while we ride our bikes, we might not pollute directly, but it costs more food, clothing (needing 11000 liters of water for just 1KG of cotton, and when you rip your shirt and shorts it goes in the bin), rubber for the tyres, oil etc. just to ride. So even if your 10 friends would ride bikes, it's still not green for nature. A good walk on the other hand is green. Perhaps I'm wrong, I don't know. I don't live in Canada. Everywhere I turn here in Belgium it's pure urban life. Rural people are considered being marginal. It sucks, I need to get out of here.

I want everything to be a little more environmentally friendly aswell, but it isn't possible. It costs companies way too much to make things "greener" (new machines, new products, research, etc...). Money is evil. Cycling is a very good thing for nature. But cutting trees, building trails, digging soils open, using super tacky tyres and riding a trail are not really eco friendly. I do not compare trailbuilding and riding with driving a car, because if you do so, it will seem eco friendly. A bicycle instead of a car or the bus is eco friendly. Trailbuilding and riding a trail with no purpose other than pleasure and fitness is not eco friendly. Especially not if you have a carbon frame. I won't go into detail. Let's just keep in mind that cycling is better for everyone. It won't save planet Earth though.

"Green" is a myth. It is a political thing that is printed in people's minds to make them think they save the planet by buying "eco" products. If "green" was really the way to go, only green products would be found. Also, often, "green" costs more energy, more material and more people to produce, so it is worse to earth than traditional products.