“Postcards from a World on Fire,” Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury explained, is a new project publicized as the world is pending an inevitable apocalypse of biblical proportions entirely due to our own dereliction, and “makes clear, climate change is already underway. At this point, we can’t stop it.”
Except today’s generation relishes in the safest planet in human history. Climate-related deaths have fallen more than 98 percent since 1900, with weather to blame for 0.07 percent of deaths worldwide and 0.01 percent of deaths in the United States between 1980 and 2014. That’s after the planet already heated 1 degree Celsius since the Little Ice Age century of the 1800s despite far higher atmospheric pollution than previously existed.
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Today’s statistics revealing comparatively low climate mortality are something to mark, a landmark achievement one might guess would deserve a project to hail from one of the nation’s largest legacy newspapers.
The New York Times’ “Postcards” project seeks to scare an audience exposed to hysterical predictions of a world reaching an end through climate self-destruction. The project comes despite fast development made possible by cheap, reliable energy from fossil fuels that have changed a dangerous planet into a manageable one, opening the door to adjustment and environmental stewardship.
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“Anyone who portrays today’s world as ‘devastated’ or ‘ruined’ by fossil-fueled climate change is ignorant, anti-human, or both,” Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress and author of “Moral Case for Fossil Fuels,” told The Federalist. “With the New York Times’ ‘Postcards From a World on Fire,’ it’s almost certainly both.”
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The Times published 193 stories, one from each country, to suggest a look into the experiences with a changing planet from each corner of the globe. The visuals are surprising to the ignorant eye, bathed in the images of fires, floods, death, and destruction.
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Yet Copenhagen Consensus President, Bjorn Lomborg, described in the Wall Street Journal last month exactly how the world faces far less danger today than ever before.
“Many of the fearful descriptions you hear of souped-up hurricanes, heatwaves, and wildfires aren’t accurate. And estimates of costly but increasingly frequent climate dangers are typically designed to mislead,” Lomborg wrote.
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Lomborg went on to highlight rising numbers of $1 billion-plus natural disasters calculated by the National Centers for Environmental Information as a prime example of disinformation feeding hysteria.
“But,” Lomborg wrote, “only measuring the total damage of natural disasters over time misses the important point—there’s much more stuff to damage today than there was several decades ago.”
As countries continue to develop, there’s more for massive storms to destroy, but storms are on the decline as well.
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