“If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.”
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In America Road deaths are closely followed by gun death. While you do have to drive for many reasons, people used to get killed by horses and carts, your second cause of gun deaths in children is an absolutely unnecessary statistic. You don’t need to own or use a gun.
Sadly the rest of the developed world has the same problem with cars but happily not guns. While in the less developed world the main problem is treatable diseases as you say. But it is only America where guns get a mention.
Driving is a necessity and the risks while known can be lessened by your own driving. Not a guarantee, buy a help. Gun deaths of children, as happens it seems, uniquely in America. Is avoidable. But once again a problem that can be blamed on your GOP who oppose any reforms.
This in the interest of greed a
& electoral success in appealing to the uneducated, as trump does. It seems 80% would like gin reform & haven’t got the sense to vote against GOP to achieve it.
It need not be a necessity. It is because that is how we’ve designed things to date and we publicly subsidize the storage of privately owned vehicles just because too.
This! Must be an off day for War on Cars or they included the quote to highlight that even in discussing the problem of cars killing kids we are unwilling to put blame on the source of the problem.
I survived being knocked down by a car on a school crossing when I was eight (I had a head injury). I have subsequently never been a driver myself and have used public transport all my life.
They mentioned the 1.2 million people killed by car crashes annually but no mention of the 8 million killed by pollution from burning fossil fuels annually. 20-50 million more people suffer non-fatal injuries, with many incurring a disability. Microplastics from car tires are in our bodies. #BanCars
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& electoral success in appealing to the uneducated, as trump does. It seems 80% would like gin reform & haven’t got the sense to vote against GOP to achieve it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/07/rfk-environmental-attorney-record-trump-endorsement/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_for_a_Ride