megadeath

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You do realize the alternative is megadeath, right?

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the death of a million people; "they calibrate the effects of atom bombs in megadeaths"

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noun

the death of a million people; "they calibrate the effects of atom bombs in megadeaths"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for megadeath.

noun

the death of a million people; "they calibrate the effects of atom bombs in megadeaths"

Example sentences

You do realize the alternative is megadeath, right?

A 1% die off is a massive disaster but even a 99% megadeath is 75 million people short of killing us all.

GM something so that megadeath chemicals weed killer product doesn't affect it?

The megadeath weed killer that you are likely referring to is in most cases round-up, also called glyphosate.

To be fair, in 200 years most of the developed world went from bickering nobles and rioting peasants to a bunch of powers capable of waging megadeath war. Industrialization is like that.

Megadeth is named after the term “megadeath”, a unit in Cold War calculations of possible nuclear attacks to designate a million deaths.

It would take a serious civil war, a world war where the mainland USA wasn't left untouched, or a similar multi-megadeath level catastrophe.

It's dehumanizing, and "two megadeaths" sounds a lot more appealing to the eyes and ears than "two million deaths" or "2,000,000 people dead".We're only hurting 180 megausers, not 180,000,000[1] users.

The alternatives now are national quarantine with massive economic damage but saving more lives or megadeath with all the sorrow and disruption that brings, especially to the poor and disadvantaged.