https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
Summarises car-related harm including crashes, pollution, land use, and injustices.
1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1,670,000 deaths per year.
Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention.
Car harm will continue unless policies change; example interventions are discussed.
2 Comments
br3d@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 93d
That's actually a big underestimate. Collisions alone (which are quite easy to measure) are 1.2m per year. When you factor in the deaths from air pollution, noise pollution, etc, that's several times more
savvie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 23d
It’s time for GM to pay reparations to the citizens of Earth