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

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?

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.