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Note that according to https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.h... , which de
by trothamel 7y ago
Note that according to https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.h... , which describes a study in The Lancet, "cold weather kills more than 20 times as many people as hot weather". So it kind of makes you wonder if this is something like the trolley problem - if raising the temperature sacrifices 1,500 lives to save 30,000, is it worth it?
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIf global warming continues on a worst-case trajectory, then large swathes of equatorial land may be uninhabitable to humans in 50 or 100 years. More than a billion people will be forced to migrate or die. If it comes to that, the death toll will be much worse than a few bad winters.