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Isn't that just about the same, in aggregate? 60 years from now, 7 people die at age 60 instead of 70, "caused" by air pollution. Smoothing it out, that's one d
by mikepurvis 5y ago
Isn't that just about the same, in aggregate? 60 years from now, 7 people die at age 60 instead of 70, "caused" by air pollution. Smoothing it out, that's one death per year from now until then.
- tshaddox 5y agoI suppose it works out to be the same if the cause of death is distributed evenly among all ages, but I suspect that's rarely the case. If something causes a lot of people to die at 90% of average life expectancy you wouldn't want each one to only count as one tenth of a death.