-If all roads in Europe would be spread out, they would encircle the Earth's equator 100 times.-That's so much asphalt that we could cover the entire territory of Switzerland with it.
-European roads claim the lives of 43.000 people every year, among them 1100 children.
-Every year, 1.3 million traffic accidents occur on European roads.
- In those accidents, every year 1.7 million people are injured.
-European roads are the cause of death for a half of all wild animals.
-EU car transport emissions of CO2 currently account for about 3,5% of total global CO2 emissions.
A car has really got to be something special for us to be ready to sacrifice so many people, destroy so much fertile soil, cut down so many forests, pollute the air and even finance all this. Something has got to be very wrong with us.
Benjamin
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