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minus-squareoo1@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·10 months agohumans too. i think if you attribute car killings to humans they beat mosquitos by a decent margin.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·10 months agoMaybe? Cars in the US kill like 40,000 people a year; mosquitoes kill like 725,000 people a year
minus-squareRobmart@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-210 months agoYeah but 1.35 million die globally from car crashes, far more than mosquitoes kill.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoInteresting. That was more than I expected when looking at like China/India/US That looks like the official number, though. I thought mosquito deaths were being underestimated
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoWell we have gotten the number down significantly over the last century or so
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoYeah, but mosquitoes have a much bigger head start, and we’ve significantly reduced mosquito related deaths in the last century. Over the last 250,000 years even cars don’t come close yet.
humans too.
i think if you attribute car killings to humans they beat mosquitos by a decent margin.
Maybe? Cars in the US kill like 40,000 people a year; mosquitoes kill like 725,000 people a year
Yeah but 1.35 million die globally from car crashes, far more than mosquitoes kill.
Interesting. That was more than I expected when looking at like China/India/US
That looks like the official number, though. I thought mosquito deaths were being underestimated
Well we have gotten the number down significantly over the last century or so
Yeah, but mosquitoes have a much bigger head start, and we’ve significantly reduced mosquito related deaths in the last century. Over the last 250,000 years even cars don’t come close yet.