Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

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Publisher Description

Carjacked is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices are is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 per year that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year.

Carjacked details the complex impact of the automobile on modern society and shows us how to develop a healthier, cheaper, and greener relationship with cars.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2010
January 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
1
MB

Customer Reviews

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A Hard Look At American Culture

This book takes a very critical look at the reality of the American car culture, laying out its real costs - in both dollars and lives - for anyone to understand. In particular, the last chapter on how to lessen the impact of automobiles on your life and pocketbook provides excellent concrete suggestions that any family can easily implement.

If you're like me and have already decided not to own a car, you probably won't learn much new. Still, it's a must-read for your family and friends who have yet to fully understand how shackled to our vehicles most of us are.

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