21 year old boricua grrrl looking for the Marceline to my Princess Bubblegum. My name is Melanie.

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[More than five hundred thousand people worldwide die each year in road accidents.] Two-thirds of these deaths involve pedestrians, of which one-third are children. Just in the United States about forty-two thousand people die per year because of auto collisions, nearly as many as the total number of Americans killed in Vietnam. Everybody knows someone who has died or been seriously injured in a car crash, yet cars have insinuated themselves into our social life—and into our psyches—so thoroughly that we somehow accept these deaths as inevitable, or not shocking, as opposed to perceiving them for what they are: a direct and predictable result of choosing to base our economic and social systems on this particular piece of technology. [What’s worse is that even more people die each year from respiratory illness stemming from auto-related airborne toxins than die from traffic crashes.]

We have becomes slaves to these machines. […] But that’s the reality we face. And that’s the reality we accept. It’s a reality we don’t even talk about. More teenagers are killed by cars across the U.S. every afternoon than the fourteen high schoolers gunned down in Littleton. Everybody says that living in an inner city is dangerous, that you’re going to get shot. But the truth is that because of car crashes, suburbs are statistically far more dangerous places to live. I’ve proven this to people, and they still refuse to walk with me in downtown Seattle, but they’re perfectly happy to get in a car, just because it’s normal. We don’t talk about any of this because this violence—the violence of the U.S. transportation policies—is so engrained into our psyches that we believe it is inevitable, and not the result of policy decisions and subsidies.

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anticar activist Jan Lundberg quoted in The Culture of Make Believe (2002) by Derrick Jensen, p. 277

Perspective.

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