[extropy-chat] Re: Gandhi's antipode

[BillK]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:37:23 +0200, KPJ <kpj at sics.se> wrote:
> 
> * World War II and regime of Adolf Hitler (1937-1945), over 50 million dead,
>   including the Holocaust, killing two-thirds of the Jewish population of
>   Europe (6 million).
> * Regime of Mao Zedong and Chinese famine (1949-1976), over 28 million dead.
> * Regime of Joseph Stalin (1924-1953), over 20 million dead.
> * World War I (1914-1918), over 15 million dead.
> * Russian Civil War (1918-1921), over 8.5 million dead.
> * Armenian Genocide of 1915 by the Turks, over 2 million dead.
> \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
> 
> So it seems Joseph Stalin was third of the mass murderers of the 20th century.
> 
> Summary: Ideologies are much more dangerous than traditional ethnic violence.
> 

Can I nominate the automobile as the greatest mass murderer of the 20thC?

<http://www.worldbank.org/transport/roads/safety.htm#economic>
Every year more than 1.17 million people die in road crashes around
the world. The majority of these deaths, about 70 percent occur in
developing countries. Sixty-five percent of deaths involve pedestrians
and 35 percent of pedestrian deaths are children. Over 10 million are
crippled or injured each year. It has been estimated that at least 6
million more will die and 60 million will be injured during the next
10 years in developing countries unless urgent action is taken.

How much is convenient travel really worth?

BillK