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> When you include cases like that, and you should if you're trying to figure out how important it is to avoid global heating, the death toll goes way up. Shou
by leftyted 7y ago
> When you include cases like that, and you should if you're trying to figure out how important it is to avoid global heating, the death toll goes way up.
Should you? If we take this approach, I wonder how many people rain kills. Or how many people El Nino kills.
My sense is that there are good reasons we don't speak about these kinds of things in the same terms as we speak about, say, an epidemic.
- Nasrudith 7y agoYet if an individual person caused it by spraying water over the road they would be responsible under "eggshell patient" rules no matter how infirm the victim. I would lean towards yes for all such considerations. If a flood plain will kill more/fewer people than desert silicosis we should keep them all in mind.
- skohan 7y agoYeah I would think if you could tease out a correlation between degrees-above-average and all-case mortality it would be an interesting and valuable statistic.