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.
如果人类想要快速取得一些成就,不妨从道路交通安全着手。根据世界卫生组织(WHO)的统计,2010年交通事故导致了124万人丧生。这大概是谋杀和武装冲突致死人数总和的两倍。然而,我们可以相当轻易地挽救其中许多人的生命。某种程度上,我们之所以没有这样做,只是因为缺乏想象力。
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