If we are to ponder the true numbers, it’s a little unsettling that we’ve been lead by mainstream media to worry about terrorism when the much larger fear is, in fact, sitting right inside our own garage. Of course that doesn’t sell newspapers, does it. Nor is it supportive for political discussion or growing stock price. They don’t want to talk truth, oh no.
According to FT.com If humanity wants some quick wins, a good place to start would be road accidents. Traffic killed 1.24 million people in 2010, says the World Health Organisation. That’s about double the toll of homicides and armed conflict combined. Yet we could save many of these lives quite easily. Our failure to do so is in part a simple failure of imagination.
Bitch or Explode 