> If you accept the Ukrainian expert’s estimation as at least plausible, then it would take 100 years for ladder deaths to equal his estimated Chernobyl death toll
How many years do you hear when someone says "several generations"? I hear 120 years, 40 years a generation after overlaps. I suppose he might mean several generations all alive at the time of the accident, but we're talking timespans of 20-40 years.
Maybe we can agree Chernobyl was much worse than I thought, and is potentially 2-10x more deadly than persistent use of ladders?
It doesn't make as much sense to talk about it being one incident when it is in context of what would happen if, eg, they had used coal for those 40 years. Coal is much worse than ladders too.
How many years do you hear when someone says "several generations"? I hear 120 years, 40 years a generation after overlaps. I suppose he might mean several generations all alive at the time of the accident, but we're talking timespans of 20-40 years.
Maybe we can agree Chernobyl was much worse than I thought, and is potentially 2-10x more deadly than persistent use of ladders?
It doesn't make as much sense to talk about it being one incident when it is in context of what would happen if, eg, they had used coal for those 40 years. Coal is much worse than ladders too.