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Those numbers you found are only for liner shipping, not all shipping.

• ErikVandeWater 7y ago
  The total world GDP is around 80 trillion. A 2.5 trillion dollar problem is about 3% of total GDP. That is an astronomical amount of rust!
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  • Blahah 7y ago
    In the context of a thread about the precision of quantitative language, I feel obligated to raise an eyebrow (and type a comment about the raising of said eyebrow) at your use of "astronomical".
    • perl4ever 7y ago
      The number of stars in the Milky Way is supposedly about 250 billion, so anything in the trillions is well qualified to be considered an astronomical number.
  • sumodm 7y ago
    Technically, it could be 2.5T because they never say annually. So may be they are talking about 100 years :|. That said, the QZ title is really misleading and click-baity. They have a simulated environment test and yet to tested for real world conditions.