[extropy-chat] deaths due to low temperatures

[Dirk Bruere]

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Subject: [extropy-chat] deaths due to low temperatures


> 
> If we eventually decide that global warming is due
> primarily to human activity, then would we not become
> collectively liable for the perennial human deaths 
> caused by cold temperatures?  It would be humanity's
> fault, since we theoretically had the means to prevent
> the proles from freezing, yet failed to do so.
 

Think of all the Arctic explorers who we could have saved.
Too bad about those people dying in the desert heat though...

Dirk

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