Claims / C-FRCYXCH15J
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Per hour, chronic death dwarfs the risks we dread.
The claim
Per hour of exposure, being alive in a rich country carries about one death per million people, a quarter of it heart disease; driving raises that about 50%, flying about 3%, natural disasters a thousandth or less.
Argument role: measured quantity. Starr's per-hour-of-exposure metric. Baseline ~1x10^-6 per person-hour (10 per 1,000 a year over 8,766 h; chunk 360's "0.00001" is a transcription error, chunk 361 confirms one in a million). CVD ~3x10^-7; driving ~5x10^-7 (chunks 368 and 373 agree); flying ~2.8x10^-8; tornadoes ~3x10^-9; earthquakes, floods 10^-10; US terrorism ~6x10^-11. Use: the slow, chronic baseline is where the deaths are, which grounds C-7WYNJRMN45.
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Evidence 4 passages
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in affluent countries, the overall risk of natural demise amounts to one person among one million dying every hour. Every hour, one person among about three million dies of heart disease
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during the time a person is driving the average chance of dying goes up by about 50 percent compared to staying at home
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This is only about three percent of the general risk of mortality while aloft
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calculations of exposure risks to other commonly encountered natural disasters around the world converge on the same order of magnitude, 10 to the minus 9, or yield even lower rates.
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