Over just a few days. In comparison, BC has had 1,754 Covid related deaths. Cilmate change is going to cause many orders of magnitude more misery and death.
That's the total number of Covid deaths during the entire pandemic. I assume they were making a point about priorities. However the low number of deaths was the result of strict lockdowns and regulations.
the non-obvious excess mortality from air pollution, extreme weather, cold & heat, add on effects of flooding, fire, draught etc are far worse.
But just as with covid, even when ones family starts getting sick there is still a significant chunk of people who just don't care or maybe psychologically their brains react and go into crazy mode.
What scares me most is how little we are doing and how little power it feels I have. IDK maybe start a constitutional amendment drive in liberal states for a binding green bill of rights and regulated emissions + capture. Focused only on climate not a liberal social dream.
I find it hard not to dive deep into /r/collapse type rabbit holes (which btw that sub is only like 10% good, 90% crazy people planning their bug out but they can't even run a mile lol).
I have been thinking lately of changing my few years housing goal. Wanted to get a stand alone house and rent my condo. But lately have been looking online at high elevation property in the mountains. would try to be totally self sufficient. But I think growing enough food to live up there long-term would be really tough (colorado).
300+ of the 486 are unexpected. The title is true but its a bit misleading:
> The 486 deaths represent a "195% increase over the approximately 165 deaths that would normally occur in the province over a five-day period," she added.
> Of note: Although not all of these deaths can be attributed to the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, Lapointe said the extreme weather is likely responsible for the surge in numbers.
No I mean I get that yes, the increase in heat is the most likely culprit, but what if it was a surge in COVID? This read like an article that should've waited and not just spread fear mongering for the sake of it simply cause they added that little unverified caveat. If they knew that was the case, then why are they reporting on speculation? It's as if Intel sent out a press release to say "yeah we've got our 7nm architecture chips ready to go!; NOTE: we just finished a batch and haven't tested them but we'll let you know if they do work!"
The title is somewhat misleading, as "The 486 deaths represent a "195% increase over the approximately 165 deaths that would normally occur in the province over a five-day period," she added." so the number above normal is only ~300, not that that still isn't a lot more.
Seems we're more in tune with how many people die on average and why. I don't know that I've seen anything discussing the variability. But I expect that now that this information is being compiled, and analyzed, the media will be able to find lots of opportunities to alarm is whenever deaths are above average (and ignore whenever they are below average)
Utterly meaningless article about the number of deaths. Without showing how that compares to normal, they might as well not mention it at all. Comparing to "a five day period" doesn't help because there's obviously going to be variation in the rate, seasonally at least.
The sad thing is there are going to be people who suck up this looks-like-knowledge and it to support their beliefs.
So how often does a 5-day period have more than that number of deaths? Every year? Every month? Never on record? It shows nothing about the variability. Any highly volatile variable will have most values far from the average.
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Edit: I misunderstood the parent comment.
the non-obvious excess mortality from air pollution, extreme weather, cold & heat, add on effects of flooding, fire, draught etc are far worse.
But just as with covid, even when ones family starts getting sick there is still a significant chunk of people who just don't care or maybe psychologically their brains react and go into crazy mode.
What scares me most is how little we are doing and how little power it feels I have. IDK maybe start a constitutional amendment drive in liberal states for a binding green bill of rights and regulated emissions + capture. Focused only on climate not a liberal social dream.
I find it hard not to dive deep into /r/collapse type rabbit holes (which btw that sub is only like 10% good, 90% crazy people planning their bug out but they can't even run a mile lol).
I have been thinking lately of changing my few years housing goal. Wanted to get a stand alone house and rent my condo. But lately have been looking online at high elevation property in the mountains. would try to be totally self sufficient. But I think growing enough food to live up there long-term would be really tough (colorado).
> The 486 deaths represent a "195% increase over the approximately 165 deaths that would normally occur in the province over a five-day period," she added.
> Of note: Although not all of these deaths can be attributed to the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, Lapointe said the extreme weather is likely responsible for the surge in numbers.
Don't get me wrong, news agencies are the fucking worst, as they hype shit to the point of apathy. But don't let that distract you from the truth.
No doubt that was a major contributor as heat injuries just added to an already overtaxed system.
The sad thing is there are going to be people who suck up this looks-like-knowledge and it to support their beliefs.
The article shows how that compares to normal