Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Why Tobacco only? Cars are are more harmful

Consumers are suing Tobacco companies again
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6140857&ft=1&f=1001

Why the hell we do not sue Car manufacturers which (mis)lead us to believe that bigger cars are better and that commuting every day to work is a cool thing?

If we just try to estimate harmful consequences of our addiction to [bigger] cars:

- pollution caused by cars and gasoline production causes us to get ill;

- roads take away valuable land out of ecosystem to which we belong;

- commute eats out lives and separates us from our children (and inhaling heavily polluted air in the street is not beneficial to our health);

- general population now accepts Global Warming as a fact and cars are big contributor to that very dangerous trend;

I think we all need to join California’s lawsuit http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20450337-661,00.html

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