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[renewiltord]

You know what always interests me about this is that life expectancy at birth is 74 in Delhi (3 years more than Mississippi). I wonder what a DALY-adjusted life expectancy looks like. Surely they must be all suffering from emphysema near the end.

[moritzwarhier → renewiltord]

Statistical life-expectancy depends on long-term data. Which of course is not keeping up with the rate at which we destroy the planet.

It's impossible to reliably conduct long-term analysis for a lot of environmental problems.

The problem at the center is not technological innovation, to the contrary.

The problem is scale.

Exponentially scaling the destruction of the environment, is kind of what we do as a species.

[renewiltord → moritzwarhier]

Certainly, but I recall these headlines existing for two decades. Over that period it's gone up some 10 years or something.