[00:05.82]Unit 9 Wheels Lesson 4 Car Culture
[00:10.50]The Road to Destruction
[00:13.48]"This morning it took me forty minutes
[00:15.36]to get to work.
[00:16.71]More road construction works on the A 10!"
[00:19.70]"Oh really? It took me over an hour.
[00:21.93]There was an accident on the M11."
[00:24.67]"You're both luckly.It took me two hours!
[00:27.41]You don't have to use the M25."
[00:30.27]How often have you heard these conversations?
[00:33.13]How often do we get stuck in traffic jams?
[00:36.35]How often do we arrive at work
[00:38.26]or school stressed out,tired and angry?
[00:42.70]For many people in Britain,
[00:43.98]the answer is every day.
[00:46.19]But anger and stress are nothing compared
[00:48.21]to the real costs of the motor car.
[00:50.57]Here are some figures:
[00:52.72].In the last ten years,
[00:54.42]the number of cars on the roads
[00:55.98]in Britain has gone up by 30%.
[00:59.49].There are now 25 million cars in this country.
[01:03.69].Over three thousand people die every year
[01:06.52]in road accidents in Britain.
[01:09.26].In London,car engines produce 99%
[01:12.30]of all carbon monoxide in the atmosphere.
[01:16.03].Twenty-five thousand deaths per year
[01:18.04]are caused by air pollution.
[01:20.75].Some types of cancer
[01:21.95]are related to traffic pollution.
[01:24.65].Traffic is one of the major causes of global
[01:27.47]warming and climate change.
[01:30.05]The average global temperature
[01:31.90]is about 0.5 degrees centigrade higher
[01:34.98]than it was 100 years ago.
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