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

sources:
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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[–] 5 points 2 years ago

If we're doing stuff "since their invention", it should stack the sum of people that died in every war to every car death so far.

But this is just a bad post someone thought would get cheap validation on a niche community.

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