The other day, we did a story about protesters in Germany who object to Tesla expanding the size of its factory near Berlin. Quite a discussion ensued about whether those protesters really understood what they were protesting about, since electric automobiles, by definition, are more environmentally friendly because they don’t spew copious amounts of carbon dioxide in the air as they drive.
Despite the widespread harm caused by cars and automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, and subsidizing parking, electric cars, and resource extraction. This literature review synthesizes the negative consequences of automobility, or car harm, which we have grouped into four categories: violence, ill health, social injustice, and environmental damage.
Motor vehicles kill more than 700 children a day. Traffic deaths occur at the highest rates in Africa and Southeast Asia, and, in the US and Brazil, crashes disproportionately kill Black and Indigenous people. Exhibit A comes from Leeroy: “Switching from ICEV to BEV is not going to ‘save the planet’ all it does is slow down its destruction. We need to end car dependency. We need to vastly reduce the number of automobiles on our roads. Cars kill millions of people every year, injure far more and kill billions of plants and animals. They kill the liveability of our cities, both parked and in use. They allow mass surveillance of us all.
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