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It's hard to explain just how profound safety culture is now. SFAIIK, it started with the IBEW ( 50% fatality in lineman early on... ) and propagated through al
by ArkyBeagle 12y ago
It's hard to explain just how profound safety culture is now. SFAIIK, it started with the IBEW ( 50% fatality in lineman early on... ) and propagated through all industries.
WWII "only" killed 4% of the population, with the Soviet Union bearing the brunt on the Allied side.
- lostlogin 12y agoI have read and re read the article (albit on mobile) and can't see the '4%' figure anywhere. Where is it from? The Wikipedia article on Second World War casualties lists US deaths at .32% of population. As you noted, the USSR had it very rough, with figures quoted as high as 14.2% of the population killed. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
- ArkyBeagle 12y agoAs incredible as it might be to believe, the figures are a whole lot uncertain. I've used 4% for long enough that I don't precisely remember how I arrived at it. I probably picked it from the middle of the range. I believe the lower bound is known to be pretty certainly 2.5% of global population. Or it was probably used by some source I've since forgotten. Figures for China are very uncertain. "*World-wide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000." http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/ww2-by-the-numbers/world-wide-deaths.html http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-student... The uncertainty is kind of astonishing.