(December 14, 2014 at 7:22 pm)Beccs Wrote:(December 14, 2014 at 7:10 pm)lifesagift Wrote: But there were so many violent wars... is that the reason?
55 million people died in WW2, by somewhat conservative estimates. That's a tiny percentage of the human population, even 70 years ago.
And those numbers were easily replaced by the boom after the war.
And even with 55 million fatalities, better than 90% were from disease rather than a direct result of warfare.
The Black Death killed 75-200 million people in the mid-1300's - 30-60% of the human population on the planet.
As it turns out, compared to disease, war has been a pretty inefficient killer.
