Lost from the cradle of connection: the high price of driving
...s as we drive? In the same way, we decry shelters which euthanize dogs and cats, we abhor animal testing, but we kill more animals on the roads than we do in the shelters and the labs. But let’s get more anthropocentric. What about human deaths? In 2013, in the U.S. alone: 32,719 people died in car-related accidents (This number is significantly down from past years, but sadly seems to be going back up this year.) 4,735 of these were pedestrians (...
