I like how the ending of the interactive version is ruled by your PC's clock.
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Thankfully, very few war deaths have occurred in Japan, Western Europe and North America after 1945. However, I don't like how the wartime killings (after 1945) of more than 50 million people in other areas of the world not is mentioned in this video - except "they were not rich countries", without telling how extremely many it has been.
-Curt
Why did you remove the link in your original post Curt? (Was is not your source of the number of deaths?)
I was curious about your changed number - I did find this site which says 51 million war deaths between 1945 and 2000:
http://www.worldmapp...lay.php?selected=287IIRC, the narrator did say that most deaths since WWII were related to conflicts within a country as opposed to between countries.
This could be taken as suggesting that the 'problem' (and presumably, the solution) belongs to those countries with the conflicts. Of course the problem belongs to
people, whether the conflicts are between countries, or within countries.
To leave out the total number of deaths since WWII seems to be biased in favour of their argument that, to paraphrase,
things aren't so bad. I dont know the source of their information - but did come across
this page (ourworldindata.org) that seems to be making a similar argument with the data:
