Stop Signs — Cars and Capitalism on the road to economic, social and ecological decay

In North America, human beings have turn out to be enthralled by the car: 1 / 4 of our working lives is spent paying for them; communities struggle one another for the proper to construct extra of them; our cities have been torn down, remade and deliberate with their wants as the overriding concern; wars are fought to hold their gas tanks stuffed; songs are written to reward them; cathedrals are constructed to worship them. In Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay, authors Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi argue that the car’s ascendance is inextricably linked to capitalism and concerned company malfeasance, political intrigue, backroom payoffs, media manipulation, racism, tutorial corruption, third world coups, secret armies, environmental destruction and battle. An anti-car, road-trip story, Stop Signs is a singular must-read for all those that want to escape the clutches of auto domination.