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WHO DO YOU BELIEVE ON GLOBAL WARMING?
Adrian Vance said
"...In 1900 America had 70 million people in a horse-drawn, steam powered, sailing ship served economy. That is all 1900 technology could support and it wasn’t even that good. In 1900 one million Americans starved to death. We were actually beyond our limit in what today many fantasize to have been a better world..."
In 1900...
The United States Population was about 76 million (close enough)
Statistics indicate less than 600,000 Americans died in total. It's a big download but the records are still intact. You can check for yourself.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/vsus/historical/historical.htm
Inanition (i.e. starvation) is listed as 2415 deaths.
Starvation through negligence is listed at 29 deaths.
Marasmus (infant protien deficiency) took 5934 lives
"Lack of care" was cited as the death of 5026 children
Scurvy (due to insufficient fruits and vegetables) 41
Even if you count everything (assuming no overlap between marasmus and lack of care, scurvy and inanition ect.) 13445 people died from poor nutrition in the year of 1900 according to the CDC.
Unless 72 out of 73 deaths by starvation went completely unreported and less than half of total deaths were covered up your "factoid" is utter nonsense.
Comment Posted By BewareofBear On 20.01.2007 @ 16:46
