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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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[–] 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the deaths from cars will continue to go up because people still use cars, but WW2 is over so the death toll will stay the same.

If you were to compare with planes or trains it would probably have to be a per capita or deaths per mile traveled comparison to be of any use.

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