NPR: Is it Possible to Know How Many People Have Died Because of Climate Change?
NPR’s special series, “The Undercount: The invisible death toll from climate change,” aims to answer this question. When climate and health reporter Alejandra Borunda asked doctors what important topics she should focus on, she heard the same thing over and over: Climate change is hurting a lot of people, but we aren’t doing a good job of keeping track of how many. “We’re undercounting the damage by an enormous amount,” Borunda says.
The answer to the basic question here is no; it’s impossible to provide even a good guess as to this figure, if only because there is no way to ascribe any particular catastrophic event, say a hurricane or a wildfire, to climate change. It’s really not a matter of doing a good or a bad job at keeping track.
Consider what appears to be a far more black-and-white situation, deaths from COVID-19. As discussed in this paper, it’s not a straightforward task to say that a certain victim died “with” COVID or “of” COVID.
As unsatisfying as it may be, I’m afraid that the community of climate scientists will eventually give up on the task of counting the deaths due to global warming.
Question: Anti-vaxxers say that the COVID-19 is dangerous and, in particular, that it causes more fatalities than it prevents. They base this (false) claim on the (groundless) idea that the vaccine has been tested on too few individuals. In fact, how many doses of the vaccine have been administered worldwide since the onset of the disease in 2020?
Obviously, our government has a long way to go in dealing with price-gouging and monopolies, but Biden really is on a roll (despite a Congress that is essentially owned by Big Money).
I wouldn’t say that I’m offended, per se. In fact, I’m more amused.
As anyone could have predicted, 
When mainstream media covers Biden, its purpose is often to show that he’s a senile old man. But wouldn’t a bit of fairness and honesty be nice?
Those living outside the U.S. may not know that the states in the southern region of the country have always placed at the very bottom in terms of test scores in English, math, and science. This has been part of our nation’s reality since compulsory schooling was put into place in the 19th Century.
As loathsome as these people are, they aren’t interested in reinstating slavery. Yet what the MAGA crowd would like to see is a return to the mid-20th Century in terms of race relations.
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