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Not just weather, but almost anything can be attributed to climate change - poverty, depression, suicide, crime, decline in insects, decline in birds, etc.



Is your point here that it's implausible that rising temperatures could cause any of those things on your list?

Because at least two of them have an obvious link to temperatures (especially if you think about what average temperatures and weather do to birds/insects' primary food sources)...

We also know that depression (and as an indirect result, suicide) have known links to weather in some territories, so it's not implausible that climate change could impact that too. Though I'd expect higher temperatures to lower depression rates, it's possible suffering through even hotter summers without A/C could exacerbate depression among poor people, since there's nothing you can do to escape it.

If back to back heat waves brought on by climate change threaten you (maybe your grandma's sick and can't take the heat), and you can't afford any of the solutions like a nice air conditioner, maybe you get desperate and turn to crime so you can find the money to keep grandma from getting injured by the heat? I wouldn't personally say 'I bet that happens' but I also wouldn't bet money against a study being able to pull it out of the data. We had old people dying in homes not too long ago as a result of a power outage in the American southeast - Florida I think? - and it was a news-level scandal.

If hot summers and reduced rainfall kill crops, that's going to boost poverty levels in farming counties...


The horrible last season of GoT, drop in gun crimes, raise in gun crimes.

You can use that with anything.

When a school shooting happens I always hear how video games and scary goth music push them over the edge.


Who could have possibly predicted that the climate affects a lot of the planet.




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