If humanity wants some quick wins, a good place to start would be road accidents. Traffic killed 1.24 million people in 2010, says the World Health Organisation. That’s about double the toll of homicides and armed conflict combined. Yet we could save many of these lives quite easily. Our failure to do so is in part a simple failure of imagination.
如果人類想要快速取得一些成就,不妨從道路交通安全著手。根據世界衛生組織(WHO)的統計,2010年交通事故導致了124萬人喪生。這大概是謀殺和武裝衝突致死人數總和的兩倍。然而,我們可以相當輕易地挽救其中許多人的生命。某種程度上,我們之所以沒有這樣做,只是因爲缺乏想像力。
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