Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
University of Edinburgh · Edinburgh College · +5 more institutions
Abstract
Despite the widespread harm caused by cars and automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, and subsidising parking, electric cars, and resource extraction. This literature review synthesises the negative consequences of automobility, or car harm, which we have grouped into four categories: violence, ill health, social injustice, and environmental damage. We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility. Cars have exacerbated social inequities and damaged ecosystems in every global region,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 44.01
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 222
Authors
5- PMPatrick MinerCorresponding
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College
- BSBarbara Smith
University of the Arts London, Coventry University
- AJAnant Jani
University of Oxford, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
- GMGeraldine McNeill
University of Edinburgh
- AGAlfred Gathorne‐Hardy
Edinburgh College, University of Edinburgh
Topics & keywords
- Harm
- Injustice
- Poison control
- Business
- Political science
- Environmental health
- Medicine