Cars and the Environment

I'm reading a book called Something New Under the Sun, which is a catalog of human environmental misadventures.  Here's a crazy fact I just read:  Making a single car produces as much air pollution as driving the car for ten years!

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (Global Century Series) Monte

my plan to save the world - part 1

In this video I share some thoughts about the impact of cars on our culture, our environment, our health, and our "war on terrorism."  Would we do better to ride bicycles?

References:

1.  1 World 2 Wheels website

2.  NYT article on mideast oil and terrorism

3.  T. Boone Pickens on funding both sides of the war on terrorism

4.  Thomas Friedman editorial: The Big American Leak

5.  Wikileaks: How Cash Flows to Terrorists: