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  • NotSpez@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    And yet another problem that disproportionately affects poor people, I guess

    • Elderos@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Is there a thing on this earth that does not disproportionately affects poor people. Even freakin’ marginal taxation still end up sparing the richs.

  • perestroika@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    In short: yes.

    Even fairly far north where I live (Estonia), a summer heatwave that reached ~35 C (humid air) caused a bump on the mortality graph. Of course, it was small compared to mountain made by spring COVID, but it was visible - no other weather events give visible mortality here.

    When the 2003 European heat wave hit France, excess mortality was 1600 people per day - more than both sides are suffering in the war in Ukraine.

    The total per all of Europe was estimated at 70 000 people.