Gregg Easterbrook, author of The Progress Paradox and fellow of the Brookings Institution, writes to argue in his essay, “Road Kill,” that traffic deaths kill more people than terrorists attacks but not even close to the amount of awareness terrorist attacks have. He argues that we don’t care as much because car accidents are just viewed as accidents and points out that we could lower the number of deaths if we create awareness (A-3). Easterbrook writes that terrorism has had more publicity and less deaths than the staggering amount of traffic deaths that happened in the same year. “245,000 Americans have died because of one specific threat since 9/11” states Gregg Easterbrook in his article “and no one seems to care” (A-3). Globally, traffic
