What was the most destructive disaster in history? (POLL)

[gr8dayseth]

It's an unnatural disaster, which is allowed in here too.

you may as well just have the title say disaster then

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[Frequency]

Well, chinese are very small. There could have been a lot of them squeezed in one place.

Jesus Christ.

[Mouse droidz 21]

world war 2 and Mao Zedong's massacre. Actually Mao Zedong's massacre is by far the worst disaster since he killed 45 million people

[Jairo]

world war 2 and Mao Zedong's massacre. Actually Mao Zedong's massacre is by far the worst disaster since he killed 45 million people

actually mao's numbers scale between 45 million and 90 million

[Zack]

the extinction of the dinosaurs killed off hundreds of entire ecosystems worth of species almost instantly so I mean it's obviously the winner.

So much so I don't even know if it's actually fair to have it there, should probably only just count human affecting disasters.

[beachbum111111]

Your birth

[Mouse droidz 21]

actually mao's numbers scale between 45 million and 90 million

That just makes it 10 times worse goddamn what the forget was wrong with him

[Cappytaino]

Deadliest natural disaster (in my opinion) was by far the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event, wiped out 3/4 of the plant and animal species on Earth.

If we're talking about human life specifically, the Toba Catastrophe, in which complications resulting from the eruption of the Toba supervolcanic eruption caused a global volcanic winter for 6-10 years and bottlenecked the human population down to as few as 3000-10000 individuals.

Unnatural disasters, if we can consider this a single disaster despite taking place over a much longer timeframe, was likely the genocide of the precolumbian indigenous peoples of the Americas by the Spaniards, the British, the French, and eventually the Americans, with a death toll of around 100 million people being killed directly or indirectly as a result of European expansion into the Americas.

[Juncoph]

the extinction of the dinosaurs killed off hundreds of entire ecosystems worth of species almost instantly so I mean it's obviously the winner.

So much so I don't even know if it's actually fair to have it there, should probably only just count human affecting disasters.

this. it's objectively the worst natural disaster humanity knows of.

[CRITAWAKETS]

When Joseph Stalin died.
I chose the 2011 Japan Earthquake + Tsunami.

[AtlasBlue]

No Man's Sky.

[beachbum111111]

[Cappytaino]

btw why is the holocaust listed as a natural disaster? There are other things on that list that are not at all natural.


I also wouldn't say the Black Plague is natural, because a lot of the spreading of the plague was facilitated by human activity, such as warfare/trade.

[Lord Tony®]

The meteor that killed 90% of life on our planet.

There is no competition, that literally is the most destructive disaster in our history.

[Kumquat]

Pomp pay