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Electric cars won’t fix sitting: The health costs of designing cities around cars

Walkability pioneer, UC San Diego urban planning professor Lawrence Frank revisits two decades of evidence linking car dependence and chronic disease — and explains why cleaner cars won’t make us healthier.

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His message is simple: Technological advances like electric vehicles have improved our air quality, but they don’t make us move. We’ve cleaned the tailpipes, but we haven’t cleaned up the behavior.