“Think of people you know who have passed away before reaching age 65. Statistically, half of them would still be alive if the US had the mortality rates of our peers. The US is experiencing a crisis of early death that is unique among wealthy nations.”
Let me take a few shots here:
- Guns and gang violence
- Rampant obesity
- High suicide rates thanks to hyper-liberal capitalism
- Horrific healthcare thanks to hyper-liberal capitalism
- Overworked workers thanks to hyper-liberal capitalism, might coincide with suicide
- Environmental desasters not being handled properly (or, god forbid, prevented)
Feel free to add to this list, I’m sure there’s more
Cars, like 20% of child deaths are car related.
Then there’s the indirect deaths caused by chronic lack of exercise, brought on by car dependent suburbs.
Not Just Bikes argues it’s the trucks (ever larger SUVs and light pickups) that are doing a lot of the killing. I saw an interesting diagram recently showing you can see a child out of a main battle tank more closely to the front of the tank, than you can in front of most American pickups and SUVs.
Yeah, there’s a ton of issues with cars and car dependency, especially in the US but also elsewhere and the US are exporting their huge death machines…
