Physical inactivity rises alongside temperature. A study in Lancet projected up to 520,000 additional deaths by 2050 and $2.59 billion in annual productivity losses.
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Would this increase or lower 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.
It lowers the chance of a successful revolution, thus increasing expected CO2 emissions.
Those numbers seem low…
I don’t think this is the only mechanism by which global warming kills
If politicians don’t start taking it seriously, global warming is going to start causing deaths that suspiciously seem to effect the oil CEOs more
Oh no!, not the productivity!
