I know negotiations among states that draw from the Colorado River are ongoing with water rationing measures being discussed, but it feels like the threat of water shortage doesn’t align with booming growth in this part of the country. Is the threat overstated? Are there solutions available when things get really dire? Or is it just hubris of prioritizing short term profits instead of long term sustainability? All the above?
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Because evolution did not give you the tools to accurately evaluate risk.
So here’s a fun experiment for you. The way you measure mortality is often through deaths per 100,000. That way you don’t get things twisted by 6,000 die of a population a billion vs 3,000 who die in a population of 4,000. One of those is clearly significantly more dangerous, right? Right.
So here’s the question for you: Rank these in order of how deadly you think they are:
* Being a police officer.
* Riding a motorcycle.
* Giving birth.
When you feel confident, check this: >!With motorcycles it’s about 74 per 100,000, giving birth is about 37 per 100,000 and for cops it’s about 1 per 100,000.!<
Is that the order you expected?
When climate change hits it’s going to cause a huge amount migration due to climate change. Current estimates are around 1/8th of the world’s population might need to completely relocate. Ever hear about the Bronze Age Collapse? But that is 30 years out and a number too big for your monkey brain to understand.
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