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Driving cars in the city is the new smoking. Our grandkids will look at this time as barbaric.
by jchanimal 7y ago
Driving cars in the city is the new smoking. Our grandkids will look at this time as barbaric.
- lixtra 7y agoSharing your location with the state in real time all time seemed barbaric a decade ago while it will be normal for our kids.
- firethief 7y ago*Internal combustion cars. Electric cars enable us to avoid polluting the cities by burning coal somewhere unimportant.
- jchanimal 7y agoMy take is it’s more about killing pedestrians than polluting.
- firethief 7y agoOh. I didn't expect that, probably because in the US car-pedestrian accidents kill 6,000 people a year [1] and air pollution kills 6,000,000 [2] 1. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589453431/pedestrian-fatalities-remain-at-25-year-high-for-second-year-in-a-row https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589453431... 2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/04/18/air-pollution-contributed-to-more-than-6-million-deaths-in-2016-infographic https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/04/18/air-po...
- jchanimal 7y agoBut way more than 6000 kids a year don’t play outside because of our artificially created apex predators.