How Cars Are The Apex Predators

If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?

If aliens were watching Earth, they’d think cars were the apex species. I mean, just look. If they looked down, this is what they’d see:

Roads

Photo by Ian Beckley from Pexels

Road, roads everywhere. 20% of the earth’s surface is within 1km of a road, and the rest is vivisected into 600,000 pieces, most of them tiny.

Where there aren’t roads, there’s parking.

Parking

Dodger Stadium parking lot in Los Angeles, via 21st Century City

Parking, parking, with no one there. In LA there’s more parking spaces than human spaces (housing). As Strong Towns says, “parking is the dominant physical feature of the postwar American city,” and this car cancer has spread all over the globe.

Aliens can see it from space.

Predators

If they’d look a little closer, they’d also see that cars are predators.

The human herd is relentlessly culled by these beasts of prey. Cars are the #1 killer of young people (aged 5–29). Our children have to cross…