The predicted number, which includes deaths since June, likely represents an underestimate of total deaths. The heat could linger beyond February, and the climate swing could bring about other life-threatening conditions, including flooding, wildfire and infectious diseases
It’s not like people actually cared about the victims of previous disasters. Covid, ebola and all the other things (wars also).
In my mind I always see a post about Warhammer40k where they said the emperor kills 1000 people a day just to stay alive - and how thankful we would be if only 1000 people would be killed for the rich and not more.
*(My lore is not up to date so correct me with the real imaginary numbers pls)
1000+ Russians per day die to keep the invasion in Ukraine going so Putin doesn’t fall out a window.
That’s 365000, so nearly half a million but lower than what I’d imagine nearly 500k to be. Can’t believe that universe is ‘better’
And thats only because of the heat - if you start really counting how many deaths are happening just because the rich can save a penny…
The War on Terror, which became largely about plundering Iraq’s natural resources, killed over 4 million people.
Those are only the people directly consumed by the emperor. The wealthy still kill many millions daily in 40k
So it goes, the death of one man is a tragedy, but the death of millions is just a statistic.