In North America, human beings have become enthralled by the automobile:
A quarter of our working lives are spent paying for them; communities fight each other for the right to build more of them; our cities have been torn down, remade and planned with their needs as the overriding concern; wars are fought to keep their fuel tanks filled; songs are written to praise them; cathedrals are built to worship them. Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi will discuss their new book, Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay.
