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> The hot July killed 1000 people in the Pacific Northwest alone in just 1 week. Cold kills more people than heat. Milder winters will save more lives than wil
by pdonis 5y ago
> The hot July killed 1000 people in the Pacific Northwest alone in just 1 week.
Cold kills more people than heat. Milder winters will save more lives than will be lost in hotter summers.
- macintux 5y ago> Milder winters will save more lives than will be lost in hotter summers. Ecological collapse brought on by adding stress to a system already stressed the hell out by decades of rapid change, however, would probably kill a lot more lives than any saved.
- pdonis 5y agoHumans' ability to adapt to change will save many more lives, if we allow adaptation to happen. The biggest thing preventing that right now is doomsday rhetoric. Humans have adapted to much bigger changes than this in the past. Our ancestors adapted to the change from Ice Age to interglacial with Stone Age technology. The idea that we somehow cannot adapt to this much smaller change with 21st century technology is laughable.
- macintux 5y agoI’m sure we will. I’m sure the toll was heavy then, and will be heavy again.