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The Cost of the Car: Human, Environmental, and Economic

The Cost of the Car: Human, Environmental, and Economic

East, Ian

Hardcover

AutomobilesEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0956540910
ISBN13: 9780956540911
Publisher: Open Channel Pub Ltd
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.88 Width: 8.50 Depth: 5.50
Language: English

The Cost of the Car is a dispassionate but engaging account of the consequences of predicating our habitat on the automobile, largely from a technical point of view. (The author is a former physicist and aerospace engineer.)

Treating transport as an engineering problem, the car is first assessed, in comparison with other options, with regard to efficacy, safety, price, and performance. The cost to the wider economy, community, health, and the environment is then also considered. While the extent of its deficiencies become clear, so does the value we place on privacy and control.

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