A review by story_graph_
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb

Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.

 

Too many stories inside about the human world, not focus on ecology, which is a misleading title. The book repeatedly blaming certain group of people, such as:

"Cars turned streets into war zones. Early automobiles were death machines—unencumbered by safety features like turn signals and seatbelts, piloted by ill-trained drivers, and subject to only rudimentary laws. Tight curves were marked with pictures of skulls-and-crossbones or the Grim Reaper. Journalists bemoaned the proliferation of “road hogs,” “speed maniacs,” “Sunday drivers,” “juggernauts,” and the dreaded “flivverboob,” the epithet for an inconsiderate motorist. The automobile struck critics as not only dangerous but depraved. The moment that “the foot touches the accelerator and the hand grasps the wheel,” chided one reporter, law-abiding citizens “become afflicted with the gas rabies."