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Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people worldwide and injured 2 billion since 1900. (29 million since 2000!)

(All deaths in WW2: 78 million)

Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility.

Source for combat figures:

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/books/chapters/what-every-person-should-know-about-war.html

Source for car deaths since 1899:

Motor vehicle fatality rate in U.S. by year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

Here's the "Car Harm" paper, from the Journal of Transport Geography

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267

How did we get to mass slaughter as the business-as-usual model for our transport system?

Call it "Motonormativity." I dig into this nasty global reality in this #Straphanger dispatch:

https://www.straphanger.blog/motonormativity-2/

Combat figures, like car death figures, begin in 1899. ie, 20th cent wars, Civil War excluded