How we can save the planet

In the late eighties, while the Department of Transport was congratulating itself on reducing pedestrian deaths, Hillman pointed out that death rates were falling because the roads were getting more dangerous—not less. He was right. Road danger was driving a massive decline in walking—so there were fewer pedestrians to be killed—and today's epidemic of fat kids is one of the direct consequences of this.
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Ian Roberts
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BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
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doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7554.1398-a
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10 June 2006
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