What do you mean "next"? People are dying today (and in previous years) from heat waves (and floods, and hurricanes, etc etc). Climate crisis deaths are here, a

What do you mean "next"? People are dying today (and in previous years) from heat waves (and floods, and hurricanes, etc etc). Climate crisis deaths are here, and will only accelerate. I agree, we need to take it seriously, and that does need to involve large public investments, a carbon tax that's comparable to the actual externalities created by emissions, and broadly changing the way a lot of the rich world lives. But maybe recognizing that people are already dying can be a valuable step towards acting in a way commensurate with the scale of the problem? - let's see DAs in locations that have deaths clearly due to climate change bring charges (e.g. manslaughter) against the largest emitters. Every time ExxonMobile is in the news, it should be mentioned as "oil and gas company and manslaughter defendant ExxonMobile" etc. - let's see a serious attempt to tally the number of casualties to the climate crisis there have already been, and put that number on a billboard on a building in Manhattan. Surely the number of people we kill is at least as important as the national debt, right? - let's see some country with whom the US has normally friendly relations, after a climate-crisis disaster, earnestly raise the discussion in an international forum that emissions at current levels, especially given that we have known about the warming impacts of those emissions for _decades_, constitute a form of environmental terrorism. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/02/asia/south-korea-heatwave-deaths-climate-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/02/asia/south-korea-heatwave-dea... https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/02/14-additional-deaths-maricopa-county-tied-record-heat-wave-arizona/ https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/02/14-additional-deaths-mar...