Daniel Knowles on Why Cars Make Life worse

The Freewheeling Podcast

Daniel Knowles is the Midwest Editor of The Economist. But when he spoke to me from Chicago, it was not about US politics but about cars.

His book Carmaggedon describes in acute, forensic detail why cars make life worse. Not just for people who don’t use them, but for people who do - and for the billions of people who currently don’t but wish they did.

His book is polemical in tone and, in this week’s edition, he tells me why cars really do make life worse for everyone and how we got here.

With a global perspective covering four continents, Daniel Knowles brings a unique view and rigorous research to a critical question: what are we going to do about it?