Posted on 09/02/2021 1:28:46 PM PDT by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
September 28, 2020
Since we started burning fossil fuels on a widespread, global scale, the number of people killed by natural disasters has gotten smaller, not bigger.
Does this mean that we have fewer natural disasters now than in the past?
No.
Instead, what it means is that the huge amount of wealth that we have created by burning fossil fuels has made us better able to withstand natural disasters.
This chart shows the number of people killed (per 100,000 population) by natural disasters by decade.
You can see a bigger version of the chart by clicking this link: https://www.businessinsider.com/natural-disasters-used-to-be-so-much-worse-2015-2
So that's where you stole your blog material?
Someone should let them know.
And that same wealth, technology and energy can now be directed at adapting to and mitigating effects of climate change, instead of exhausted in a more expensive job-killing economy, made more expensive chasing down every molecule of CO2.
Yah, but... er... there are more people in the world now! So, that means if more people are not dying, after all the burning of fossil fuels, then... perhaps it will be 20 years til the end of the World? Ask Regreta Thunberg, she ought to know... well, maybe not.
If it was not for various shades of the ideology on which socialism is based there would have also been fewer famines, fewer wars, fewer terrors and fewer genocides too.
Britain and America (and more) were blessed to industrialize by means of industrialists building their fortunes on the back of voluntary commerce rather than the dictates of pointy headed governing elites with their delusions that the game is, as the government, theirs to set what the ends should be for everyone they rule over no matter what those may think.
Heresy!
can you imagine having to deal with the recovery from a hurricane or an earthquake using horses and wagons, and wood fire heating?
Not just the numbers killed by natural disasters. The numbers killed by disease have decreased as well. How many medicines would have been developed without petrochemicals?
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel..
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