Cars kill more than 40,000 and injure more than two million people every year in the U.S. alone • CO2 emission from cars is also killing our planet • Oil dependence is endangering national security • Importing oil makes America poorer • Some of our oil dollars finance terrorists whose attacks drag the U.S. into wars and whose threat is diverting national wealth to the military and to Homeland Security, impoverishing America.

The overriding concern of our car-dependence is that the massive amounts of metal, plastic and other materials used to build automobiles amounts to a rate of consumption that is unsustainable. No matter how “green” the manufacturing and fueling process is, such levels of production-consumption associated with personal transportation our planet cannot sustain. Another reason the car-dependent way of life will come to an end, if not for the lack of energy, is the lack of space to drive and park the car in cities.

There is an urgent question we have to answer: Will the transition from car-dependent to car-free living be orderly or disruptive? Holigent.org can assist city planners and community redevelopers in drawing up plans and garnering public support for an orderly and sustainable transition.