3 ms·
If one technology causes less deaths than another, why is it relevant how either compares with any third number? Put another way, let's assume the energy death
by emiliobumachar 11y ago
If one technology causes less deaths than another, why is it relevant how either compares with any third number?
Put another way, let's assume the energy death numbers are not at all "significant compared to overall construction work accidents". Is one death by rooftop installation accident less tragic than one death by radiation poisoning? Just because you can lump the first into the big pool of construction work deaths, while the radiation death sticks out by itself?
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoDeath rates do not scale nor change over time equally. You have to account for possible worst case scenarios and their likelihood to happen.
- emiliobumachar 11y agoTrue, but not a counter-argument for what I've said.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoIt isn't a counter but a correction, in that current deaths alone isn't a good number. It is all about future deaths, which current deaths only have some predicting power of.