Many people still drive around cars that spew toxins into the atmosphere. Air pollution from cars kills 50,000 a year in the UK [0]. Apparently closer to 200,0

Many people still drive around cars that spew toxins into the atmosphere. Air pollution from cars kills 50,000 a year in the UK [0]. Apparently closer to 200,000 a year in the US. But it's even worse than that. 1.24 million each year are killed directly by motorists.[1] There are more young people killed directly by motorists than malaria or aids. And yet many people are happy to continue driving around. It's not like this is unavoidable. Electric cars are here, we could move the pollution out of cities. We could design our cities to be safer for walking and cycling. We could invest in public transport and pass on the cost of some of the externalities of cars to motorists. [0] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/mar/22/air-pollution-deaths http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/mar/22/air-pollu... [1] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/ http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/