As the global oil and gas industries continue their practices as time runs out, considerably more will die in a shorter period of time. But hey, profits>people.
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>The list of potential impacts that would need to be assessed in order to gain a complete picture of the climate death toll is long and, thus far, no researcher has endeavored to make a full accounting. “Climate change is killing a lot of people, nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it,” Carlson said. “If it were anything but climate change, we would be treating it on very different terms.”
Wael Al-Delaimy, a multidisciplinary epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego, agreed that 4 million deaths since 2000 is “definitely an underestimate.” A significant lack of mortality data in low- and middle-income countries is one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of a proper update to the McMichael standard.
>“The main challenge is mortality is not well documented and measured across the globe, and low- and middle-income countries suffer the most because they are not prepared, and there are no real epidemiological studies trying to link it to climate change,” Al-Delaimy said.
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And how many have come out of extreme poverty and how much has avarage life expectancy gone up since then?
We need to pump that up, those are rookie numbers.
This is an underestimate and other species than humans are also not counted. The problem is unstable political conditions are not letting those countries work on climate and things are getting worse, weathers are already disturbed.
I think capitalism will never allow the earth to struggle collectively to reverse climate change. A movie named “Elysium” describes very beautifully how the rich will leave the poor on earth with a bad climate and I think we can’t avoid it, until international legislations are made to deal with it.
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As the global oil and gas industries continue their practices as time runs out, considerably more will die in a shorter period of time. But hey, profits>people.
^
>The list of potential impacts that would need to be assessed in order to gain a complete picture of the climate death toll is long and, thus far, no researcher has endeavored to make a full accounting. “Climate change is killing a lot of people, nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it,” Carlson said. “If it were anything but climate change, we would be treating it on very different terms.”
Wael Al-Delaimy, a multidisciplinary epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego, agreed that 4 million deaths since 2000 is “definitely an underestimate.” A significant lack of mortality data in low- and middle-income countries is one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of a proper update to the McMichael standard.
>“The main challenge is mortality is not well documented and measured across the globe, and low- and middle-income countries suffer the most because they are not prepared, and there are no real epidemiological studies trying to link it to climate change,” Al-Delaimy said.
article continues…
And how many have come out of extreme poverty and how much has avarage life expectancy gone up since then?
We need to pump that up, those are rookie numbers.
This is an underestimate and other species than humans are also not counted. The problem is unstable political conditions are not letting those countries work on climate and things are getting worse, weathers are already disturbed.
I think capitalism will never allow the earth to struggle collectively to reverse climate change. A movie named “Elysium” describes very beautifully how the rich will leave the poor on earth with a bad climate and I think we can’t avoid it, until international legislations are made to deal with it.