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It's kinda like when they called it world war 1 and 2 - it didn't actually include the entire world, but it did include so many countries that people considered it to be the world. The amount of people that could die or be affected by global warming could kill billions. Billions.
Hmmm... words used in not-satiric circumstances where the true meaning isn't the intended meaning is a bit confusing...