PHA-Exchange> Carmageddon: the hidden war between motor cars and people

[Wim De Ceukelaire]

The latest issue of PHM South Africa's Critical Health Perspectives can
be found on PHM's website:

There is a silent, ongoing, global war between motor cars and people. It
is silent because, though it kills many times more people than armed
conflicts and terrorist acts combined, it seldom hits the headlines in
the way they do. It is ongoing because it rages and will continue to
rage around us day and night. And it is global because, though it
started in the rich world just over a century ago, it has spread
throughout the world and is now spreading like wildfire through poor
countries. I have called this war Carmageddon, from Armageddon (n), a
dramatic and catastrophic conflict, especially one seen as likely to
destroy the world or the human race. This article describes Carmageddon
and its four theatres of war.

Read more: http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/218


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Wim De Ceukelaire, south department
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