Deaths from Wars & Cars (files.mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago* by [M] to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
 

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https://mastodon.social/@mszll@datasci.social/111974118192304899
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267

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A bar chart titled "Deaths from Wars & Cars" the Leftmost bar is WW2 at 78M, followed by Cars 72M, Mongols 39M, Taiping 25M, Ming Qing 25M, 2nd CN-JP 20M, and finally WW1 19M. A note at the bottom states "Showing estimate midpoints"

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Still not a bad metric to consider. The goal with vehicles is transportation and war obviously was subjugation. Deaths being a high metric when that's not the intended purpose is alarming to say the least.

I do agree though the timeframe should be considered, and we should see the comparisons from different modes of transportation.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Now imagine how many people have died of forks in history.

    Quite a bit more than WW2 or cars for that matter.

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