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Whether you agree about the relative scale of cold and heat deaths doesn't matter. I say that all lives matter, so lives lost due to heat and lives saved due to
by SiVal 5y ago
Whether you agree about the relative scale of cold and heat deaths doesn't matter. I say that all lives matter, so lives lost due to heat and lives saved due to heat should BOTH be included in the calculation. And, yes, I'm serious that a life saved due to heat matters just like a life lost due to heat. Are you arguing that lives lost due to warmer temperatures matter, but lives saved by warmer temperatures don't? Or just that the latter problem, say homeless and poor people dying of the cold, is too trivial in your opinion to matter in public policy discussions?
- lb0 5y ago> Whether you agree about the relative scale of cold and heat deaths doesn't matter. > Are you arguing that lives lost due to warmer temperatures matter, but lives saved by warmer temperatures don't? I'm arguing that the scale matters, so please give me numbers, which you seem to know at least for the now? It is surely not a 1-to-1 exchange right now, and not in the future. So how many lives lost due to heat vs due to cold now? And what are your predictions for the future (that as far as I get it deviate extremely from scientific consensus)? > say homeless and poor people dying of the cold, is too trivial in your opinion to matter in public policy discussions? Oh come one, now you are trolling me. I didn't say and mean that at all..