Suppressing good news is scaring our kids witless — via financialpost
We are incessantly told about disasters, whether it is the latest heat wave, flood, wildfire or storm. Yet the data overwhelmingly show that over the past centuryfrom all these weather events. In the 1920s, around half a million people were killed by weather disasters, whereas in the last decade the death toll averaged around 18,000. This year, like both 2020 and 2021, is tracking below that. Why? Because when people get richer, they get more resilient.
that by the end of the century, despite climate change, human adaptation will mean even less burning.Article content And despite what you may have heard about record-breaking costs from weather disasters — mainly because wealthier populations build more expensive houses along coastlines — damage costs are actuallyBut it’s not only weather disasters that are getting less damaging despite dire predictions. A decade ago, environmentalists
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