Since this is becoming a recurring story I thought I'd do some simple fact checking.

Safety

The euro NCAP publishes reports on all cars regarding safety, it includes adult/child occupant, other vulnerable road users such as collisions with pedestrians and cyclists as well as a safety tech rating.

When comparing cars like the corolla, civic and c-class to their approximate equivalent crossovers such as the rav4, cr-v and glc. It seems that the brand makes a bigger difference than the platform type. All cars scored 5 stars and somewhat surprisingly the rav4 is beating everything bar the corolla on pedestrian/cyclist safety. Despite the much bigger size to say the civic.

Modern crossovers being a greater danger to pedestrians is a myth as far as I can see.

Emissions

Keep in mind hybrid data is very unreliable as it depends heavily on your use so the BMW comparison should be the best.

Toyots Corolla Touring Sports Hybrid 102g/km VS Toyota RAV4 Hybrid 126g/km

BMW 320i 145g/km VS BMW X3 xDrive20i 173g/km

Mazda 6 152g/km (ICE only) VS Mazda CX60 33g/km (Hybrid)

And for reference the older evil diesels:

Diesel Avensis 119g/km VS Diesel RAV4 117g/km

(But you have nox emissions with diesels)

I would say the claim of 20% higher emissions is somewhat fair. As for manufacturing emissions, that's hard to tell but as they are generally 10-25% heavier I'm going to guess its a similar story.

Proper SUVs (land cruiser, range rover) are obviously going to emit more (~240 g/km). But anecdotally, I see very few new non-commercial suvs that aren't a hybrid. It's mainly things like PHEV XC90's with 30g/km emissions. Safety for proper SUV's also seems perfectly fine, well as far as euro NCAP is concerned.

IMHO as we move to electric... who cares? We know from testing they are just as safe (if not safer) and as a motorcyclist I definitely feel more safe beside modern big cars that have warning lights in the mirror for when im in their blind spot than older smaller cars.

Also maybe we just get better public transport.