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*Internal combustion cars. Electric cars enable us to avoid polluting the cities by burning coal somewhere unimportant.
by 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.