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     What about terrorism, then?  Even if central governments and powerful states have learned restraint, terrorists might have no such qualms about using new and destructive weapons.  That is certainly a worrying possibility.  However, terrorism is a strategy of weakness adopted by those who lack access to real power.  At least in the past, terrorism worked by spreading fear rather than by causing significant material damage.  Terrorists usually don't have the strength to defeat an army, occupy a country or destroy entire cities.  Whereas in 2010 obesity and related illnesses killed about 3 million people, terrorists killed a total of 7,697 people across the globe, most of them in developing countries.  For the average American or European, Coca-Cola poses a far deadlier threat than al-Qaeda.

-Yuval Noah Harari,  Homo Deus:  A Brief History of Tomorrow