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Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention.
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cm0002 literature.cafe cm0002@literature.cafe
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267

Summarises car-related harm including crashes, pollution, land use, and injustices.

1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1,670,000 deaths per year.

Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention.

Car harm will continue unless policies change; example interventions are discussed.

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Test lemmy.zip imperious_melange@lemmy.zip
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No_Maines_Land lemmy.ca No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca
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Study says the toll starts at the first car crash death. So 1899

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No_Maines_Land lemmy.ca No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca
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Study says the toll starts at the first car crash death. So 1899

I'm not suprised there's no change. The 1900s had some pretty large fatal events:

WW1 (15-22 M)

1918 Spanish flu (25-50 M)

WW2 (60-70 M)

Second Sino-Japaneese war (20-25 M)

Aids pandemic (40 M)

Holdomore (3.5-7 M)

Belgian Free Congo genocide (10-15 M)

Russian civil war (7-12 M)

Maoist famine (15-45 M)

Bengal famine (2-3 M)

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