Daniel Sarcos: Let’s talk with my dear James about an important, troubling topic now that climate change is a tangible threat to the United States, this according to new research that claims that hundreds of people could die due to lesions caused by the environment.
James Tahan: Yes, as a matter of fact, researchers at Imperial College London that analyzed 38 years of health data within the American Union basically found that the average increase of about three degrees fahrenheit may result in 1,600 additional injury deaths each year.
Sarcos: How impressive as most of these deaths could be caused to listen well, heat stroke,car accidents, hold-ups and even suicides, when you think one thing has nothing to do with the other, right?
Tahan: Exactly, the worst thing is that most of the victims would be young men in the states where the highest number of deaths caused by the weather are California, the State of Texas and Florida.
Sarcos: Very well, as scientists used the parameters established by the Paris Climate Agreement, where an increase between 2.7 and 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit to the current temperature in our planet is predicted.
Tahan: Experts believe that climate change presents a health problem beyond the physical that affects the behavior and mental state of people. That is why what we were talking about hold-ups and other things that you say “what do they have to do with climate change?”
Sarcos: Well, hopefully this, in addition to what we already know, will allow us to make radical changes in the way we behave towards the planet.