Re: Combating global warming ?

Michael Saunby wrote:


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"Phil McGlass" <phil.mcglass@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is the present change from pre-industrial climate such a great burden?

Perhaps not that much for the UK, though in the year France had 3000
deaths in a heat wave, we may have had a thousand or two excess deaths in
the UK, so maybe 8 to 10 thousand Europe wide in one year alone ?

If this was rail safety or new road deaths, I think people would be
pretty pissed !



And pressumably the loss of 3,000 highly skilled workers has also had a
hit
on their economy - or perhaps not?

I was in Paris at the time: mostly elderly and infirm that were keeling over
and much hoo-ha on French TV about hospitals/care services unprepared for
the heatwave. Lessons to be learned... but back in GB I can't see any signs
of change in attitude.

So maybe it isn't best to compare
with road and rail deaths and better to compare with deaths from
infections in
hospitals. Which for the UK is perhaps close to that 3,000 figure every
year.

Hopsital deaths a different bag of worms for sure - MRSA etc.

Probably not, so I expect most will chose to ignore it,

They'll ignore while they feel they can't do much about it.


Why should anyone feel that? Do you? I don't.



plus next year's
change and the year after....

Probably...


Surely the reality is that as climate has been changing due to increased
industrial activity the UK has been benefiting far more from the wealth
generated than it has been harmed by increased deaths from climate causes.
I expect through most of that time the numbers killed in mining exceed
deaths from climate change.

In the future the climate deaths may be greater than road death, hospital
infections, knife attacks, cancer, HIV, terrorists, drug abuse, etc. but
in truth most of us manage to avoid such deaths already, and through luck
die
of old age. My prediction is that most of the population will remain
lucky even if death in old age gets reclassified as "death from slow
climate change".

Or more likely occluded by certified immediate cause (dehydration say)
rather than underlying or long-term disorder (Norwalk virus).

.

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