may be its a wrong view at it. if you look at burning forests, increased desertification, heavy rain events in small locations, overheated cities, groundwater declines, we should think, about changing our lifestyles. Or we may live or life as before and future will let feel us and the following generations that we do wrong.
Of course this number will go much higher, sadly. Nevertheless, panic about climate change will not work. It is currently damaging the psyche of many children. That was my point.
RASCOE: So how can this be? Like, how can the number of deaths be falling even though we hear the news, we see the disasters? You know, seas are rising, summers are hotter, hurricanes seem to be getting stronger. So how is it possible that deaths can be down?
IRFAN: Well, there are two main factors here. One is better forecasting - basically being able to get ahead of these disasters and then hopefully being able to get people out of harm's way. So that's really prominent with things like hurricanes and heat waves. We can actually see those things days in advance. The other side of the equation is how well we can cope with things like storms, fires and heat waves when they do occur. So we have better tools - things like sea walls. We have better building codes. We have firefighting teams that can get people out of fire zones. And so between those two aspects - you know, the better forecasting and the better tools - we've been able to avert a lot of deaths, even though the global population has grown about fourfold since the start of the 20th century.
Nope. You will definitely smirk the whole way to planetary death. Keep that military running, because its going to emit the carbon emissions you need to get this over with.
@Roundandroundwego China and India are the biggest polluters these days. As an added bonus, we're not genocidal like China or war criminals like Russia.
@irishmolly72 No, record heat had been in a huge number of places on land throughout large parts of the temperate Northern Hemisphere and in the waters around FL, Antarctica (where ice formation is off by an amount the size of AK).
