Regulation/government support is so frequently governed by charismatic/catastrophic events.
Other example: the UN’s 30 year estimate for early deaths attributable to Chernobyl is about the same as one day’s worth of deaths from fossil fuel air pollution.
Compounds Plural
Hurricane Andrew killed 65 people and resulted in the state rewriting building codes even though it made houses more expensive to build, while heat waves kill scores more people almost every year and broad swaths of the planet still refuse to install AC or set up cooling centers.
Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
The main reason I’ve become such a “air conditioning is an essential life saving technology” advocate is because I was horrified to find out how many people seem to think that letting millions die during heat waves without it is better “for the greater good” of slowing climate change.
Faine Greenwood
There is a certain kind of environmental advocate for whom you can barely scratch their surface and find a very classist eugenicist.
Urban dwellers and the disadvantaged are non-entities in their plans.
We should be *encouraging* more cities, the per-person impact is dramatically reduced.
