An odd observation: He cites someone who’s done such stuff before—John Nolt, a philosopher. He himself is professor of the psychology of music. I think the calculations of both of them are extremely useful (even if extremely speculative). But there’s a big question here: what prevented *scientists* from offering such numbers? Are they too afraid of publishing guesstimates? Does it not occur to them that these numbers are utterly relevant for the debate?
Thanks a lot for this pointer!
An odd observation: He cites someone who’s done such stuff before—John Nolt, a philosopher. He himself is professor of the psychology of music. I think the calculations of both of them are extremely useful (even if extremely speculative). But there’s a big question here: what prevented *scientists* from offering such numbers? Are they too afraid of publishing guesstimates? Does it not occur to them that these numbers are utterly relevant for the debate?
That’s a really good question! Maybe there just genuinely is too much uncertainty for any estimates, in their views.
I’d honestly even be interested in deaths currently attributable to climate change, but I’m sure even that is a hard problem.