Debate: Can Humanity survive our technolgical infancy?
Side: Woe for Us

Too 'full of stupid'? It was meant to be purely hypothetical...While the number of people killed in these wars was high, the percentage of the population killed was actually lower than many wars.All together, about 75,000,000 people were killed during WWII. If it were not for Germany, one could argue that WWII would never have happened; or, at the very least, would have been on an infinitely smaller scale.For example, look at the Thirty years war which claimed the lives of up to 30% of Germany. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm#30YrWMy source says that estimates very from between 2 to 20 million. However, one must remember that the population is purely an estimate - they did not conduct censuses at this time. The numbers could be off by many millions - both for the number killed and the number of people that were alive before and after. Thus, one cannot with any accuracy state the percentage of the population killed.Also, you will note that Black Death killed quite a hefty sum of people. Black Death may have occurred with or without the Thirty Years' War.I think WWI was the first war in which more people died from battle than illness (although I could be mistaken on that point). And anyways, our ability to treat the wounded would go way down.I stated 'pre-Industrial' wars. Germany's pre-Industrial wars were not as devastating as WWII. WWI took place after the 'Industrial Revolution'.Also one more point: food back then was ridiculously less healthy than food now.Less healthy back then?Where should I start.1. Grocery Stores mix frozen meat with fresh meat; when one freezes meat after they buy it, the frozen meat is being 'refrozen', which one would argue could taint it.2. Processed foods are not all that healthy.I just browsed through this link, but it seems to mostly prove my point:http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/10/19/all-the-health-risks-of-processed-foods----in-just-a-few-quick-convenient-bites.htmI've actually 'experimented' a bit. I'd eat processed foods for a few weeks, then I'd eat natural foods for a few weeks. I went from suffering from horrible flatulence, stomach pains, heartburn, type 2 feces from the Bristol Stool Scale, etc.Then, I started eating the healthy, non-processed foods, and all those side effects went away.However, even those foods are not completely healthy! http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_industrial_agriculture/they-eat-what-the-reality-of.htmlhttp://www.copperwiki.org/index.php/Growth_Hormones_in_Foodhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_feeding#Hormone_implantsThen, of course, fruit and vegetables can pose a risk!http://www.cancer.ca/canada-wide/prevention/specific%20environmental%20contaminants/ pesticides/pesticide%20exposure%20and%20cancer.aspx?sc_lang=en http://www.landofvos.com/articles/kitchen3.html http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0813/is_n7_v20/ai_13263297/ If you went back to any time before Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle then you are likely to be eating your food with a nice helping of feces mixed right in. According to my sources listed above, they eat things much worse than feces - as well as feces!Lucky for us, the FDA now inspects the food (and drugs) we consume to ensure it is of good quality.And they are completely trustworthy?Then, of course, there is Codex Alimentarius!