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Car Culture is Killing Us


Car Culture is Killing Us, and We Need to Ban Cars - by Lisa Ferris

Cars/vehicles are really, really bad for us as a people, and for our planet, and are going to be our downfall if we don't do something to change the way we ...

All The Ways That Car Domination Harms Communities (Well ...

A new study seeks to quantify everything car culture costs us. Yet there are still more ways that auto-centrism hurts us all.

Should the US phase out of car culture? : r/PoliticalDiscussion - Reddit

They argue that reliance on cars contributes to air pollution, traffic congestion, and urban sprawl, which harm both human health and the ...

Opinion: This cultural touchstone is killing far too many Americans

In the US, a nation with an incredibly shocking gun death epidemic, cars kill nearly as many people. Many, many of these deaths are preventable.

Car-Centric Culture Is A Cancer That Ravages Our Communities

America's Car-Centric Culture Is A Cancer That Ravages Our Communities · Our country's biggest problems include gun violence, racism and wealth ...

The Brake Podcast: How Many People Does Car Culture Kill, Exactly?

One in 32 people around the world die from car crashes, car-related air pollution, and car-related lead exposure every year.

Americans Must Shift Car Culture: Transportation Policy Can Help

Not only are emissions from cars warming the planet, but car accidents are the leading cause of death in the U.S. for people ages 1-54. Cars pose a clear ...

Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them | The Economist

An analysis by The Economist shows that weight remains a critical factor in car crashes in America. Reining in the heaviest vehicles would save ...

Car Culture Is Getting Even Worse - Streets.mn

Most people don't even realize that half of the racket they hear from people speeding their cars and trucks down the street is not even engine ...

Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out

New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.

Changing Car Culture Can Benefit Our Health and Our Planet

America's car culture—glamorized in advertisements, enforced by zoning laws and enabled by taxpayer subsidies—is a choice that now comes at too ...

Monsters: Cars, Which Are Killing Us and the Planet - Mother Jones

Even as the number of vehicle miles driven plummeted in 2020, the number of people killed by cars grew by the highest percentage in 96 years. At ...

Ross: Are we killing car culture? Or is car culture killing the US?

I don't think the question is whether we're going to "kill" our car culture. The real question is can we stop our car culture from killing ...

Car Culture: Everything You Need to Know - EcoWatch

Carbon dioxide isn't the only pollutant that comes out of a tailpipe. Cars, trucks and buses also emit particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ...

American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't ...

The popular discontent shown in these events doesn't sit well with the narrative that U.S. residents have always embraced car culture. As ...

Wrong Turn: America's Car Culture and the Road Not Taken

With its highways and suburbs, modern America was built around the automobile and powered by fossil fuels. The oil crises of the 1970s ...

America's Dangerous Car Culture: Cities Reclaiming Public Places ...

Americans across the nation are driving more – and the results are increased pollution, growing congestion, longer commute times, ...

The Car Paradox: How Car Centric Infrastructure is Ruining America

... about how car culture has shoved itself into our minds and how we've been conditioned to solve the problems caused by cars... with more car ...

How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society ...

For example, children, people with disabilities and the elderly are more likely to be killed or injured by motor vehicles despite lower levels ...

The Car Culture That's Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No ...

Nevertheless, the US remains the spiritual home of car culture ... In 1925 alone, cars killed 21,000 Americans, most of whom were pedestrians.