They ruin all animals’ lives, including humans’.

If I see one more dead kitten in the middle of the road, I’m gonna fucking lose it.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

When I first read about the horrifyingly high numbers of animals killed by cars, in a paper on roadkill by sociologist Dennis Soron, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

A commonly cited statistic says cars kill a million vertebrates in the US every day, and even this is likely to be a significant underestimate, according to environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb, author of the new book Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.

The book could also have surprising implications for the hundreds of millions of Americans who travel to the country’s protected natural areas every year: if you value wildlife, you may want to rethink visiting them by car.

To take a really dramatic, stark example, there are herds of mule deer and pronghorn in Wyoming that starve en masse while trying to reach low-elevation valleys to find food in winter because highways have blocked their migrations.

It really begins with this group of famous car campers: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, the tire magnate, and John Burroughs, the great nature writer and naturalist.

One chapter of the book is set in Brazil, where I visited a park where the road had actually been engineered to be really sinuous and curvy, both on the X and Y axes, to make people drive slower for the sake of animals.

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I go camping and do touring on my bike and just as the article says, you are in a better position to sadly observe the carnage. It’s also sad when looking at all those cars and trailers on camp sites.

As someone that’s aware that my passage in nature will be destructive, I can never comprehend how some people can choose to “be part of nature” by driving to a camp site with an SUV. I already kill snails, caterpillars, snakes and frogs while cycling on my bike. At least I can see them and it makes me aware that it happens. I don’t drive a car so I can only imagine that nobody will notice running over a frog. Drivers are “sealed away from their sins”. And that may be part of the issue, as I know plenty of vegans that will drive a car and forget about the innocent raccoons and deer.