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Inactivity in a warming world could spur hundreds of thousands of deaths
(www.washingtonpost.com)
Oh no!, not the productivity!
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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Those numbers seem low...
I don't think this is the only mechanism by which global warming kills
Would this increase or lower CO2 emissions?
It lowers the chance of a successful revolution, thus increasing expected CO2 emissions.
Lower I guess, but depends who's dying.
Rich boomers that use lots of resources: significant lowering.
Poor developing nations elderly and infirm: barely noticeable?
~500,000 additional deaths by 2050 ain't gonna do much to move the needle unless it's all the billionaires and the 0.1% - we live on a planet with ~8,300,000,000 people and that's expected to hit around 10 billion by 2050.
It's the latter who will die mostly; the well-off largely install air conditioning.