This was the year the Earth struck back.
Earthquakes, heat
waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and
droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 – the
deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed
worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in
terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/2010-extreme-weather-dead_n_798956.html
This is why Global Climate changes are much more of a both short and long term event threat to the whole human race than terrorism is every day.
Every year is not 2004 (250,000 dying in one Tsunami) 2010 over 250,000 dying in multiple weather events) or 2011 where 35,000 died in one Tsunami in Japan and Fukushima became a radiation problem for the next 25,000 years ongoing.
However, one year 2010 killed more people in extreme weather and earthquake events than died in Terrorist attacks in the previous 40 years.
So, this is why Global leaders are gathering together in Paris to try to lessen extreme weather events.
And on top of this 30 million die yearly now from Starvation as well which is many more deaths than most wars
for example 5 million people died in the entire Viet Nam war on all sides. Each year 6 times as many people die from Starvation now here on earth.
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U.S. 58,000 troops were killed
the North vietnamese army 1.1 million deaths 1,170,000 people were
injured
Also, estimates for civilian deaths range from .5 to 2 million.
There is difficulty in nailing down this number, because of several
factors:
distinguishing between VC and Civilians was often difficult
poor census numbers, leading to inability to accurately count
deaths
reluctance on the part of all parties to accurately count civilian
deaths (propensity to over-inflate or under-count, depending on the
entity)debate over including executed civilians not specifically
related to combat (significant number of both North and South
Vietnamese were killed by government forces of both sides in
politically-motivated actions not remotely related to actual
combat).
Note, most death counts cover 1959 - 1975.
Also, all of the numbers above EXCLUDE any deaths in Laos and
Cambodia. A ballpark number for the entire regional death toll is
5+ million.
See the link below for a summary of military KIA for the war.
Over 58,000 US Servicemen died in the war; for casualties of other
nations, see: Vietnam War casualties.
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http://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_died_in_the_Vietnam_war
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