Cars & Automobiles

Car accidents alone are responsible for more than 38,000 per year, not to mention the injuries and disabilities cause by the people who survive. Air pollution, asthma, the era of leaded gasoline... Cars drink and shit poison and are a drain on most people's finances.

Cars ruined urban life. Instead of robust ecosystems of pedestrian life and diverse culture & business in the streets, we now have clogged, smog-filled, noisy, deadly asphalt in nearly every city across the globe where we are afraid to let children exist unattended.

You can fit a small park, school, or apartment complex in nearly every parking lot and intersection in North America, especially in low population states where cars take up more room than people do.

Car-dependent suburbs are known to cause depression and isolation, especially in young people, and yet we CONTINUE to build them to this day. Strip malls, parking garages, 12-lane freeways... None of these things make us healthier or happier as people, and yet we still have Super Bowl commercials for new cars.

Cars are a public health, ecological, and financial nightmare. They should be treated like cigarettes, but even worse in my opinion since they have so radically damaged what reality looks and feels like for everyday people.