Climate-Related Deaths Down 99.9% Since 1932 | Climate Dispatch
"The Left’s newest Saint, Greta Thunberg, “informed” us during a now-famous speech she gave at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in NYC.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words...We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”
She then accused world leaders of doing nothing while “solutions are in sight.”
...As it turns out, building infrastructure to protect against climate-related catastrophes is a heck of a lot easier than altering the world’s temperature through political policies that would require the entire world to sign on.
...Meanwhile, adapting to the climate has saved literally millions of lives per year.
According to the Cato Institute:
In the decade from 2004 to 2013, worldwide climate-related deaths (including droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and storms) plummeted to a level 88.6 percent below that of the peak decade, 1930 to 1939.
The year 2013, with 29,404 reported deaths, had 99.4 percent fewer climate-related deaths than the historic record year of 1932, which had 5,073,283 reported deaths for the same category..."
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