Open link: https://archive.ph/yYMWY

recaptcha wants you to download an app to access it through a qr code? are you kidding?

Not for me.

This is from the article: > There’s also a connection with how much Americans use their cars. In the US, people drive much more. However, that doesn’t fully explain the gap — US roads are also significantly more dangerous than those in Germany per kilometer traveled (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/road-accident-deaths-per-...)

Open link: https://archive.ph/LPQQX

Ungated: https://archive.ph/ejPTZ

This is part of a bigger page that has many other metrics and explains the source data: https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality

The picture of changes in these income thresholds in relative terms is also interesting and quite different: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incomes-across-distributi...

There are other good articles about this in OWID: https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die...

Who said this is controversial?

Maybe it just the zeitgeist... "mmm this article doesn't make me want to kill the OP... something is off here"

The main number seems to be that a single text query takes about 0.24 Wh, which is as much energy as 9 seconds of TV. They say they had a 33-fold drop in energy use in just one year.