My argument is that fossil fuels and industrial civilization yields positive externalities, including longer lifespan and resilience against the impacts of a changing climate.<p>If you followed the link, you&#x27;d see that the raw data for many of the figures, including figure 1.9&#x2F;5.1, comes from EM-DAT (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emdat.be" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emdat.be</a>), as well as other sources including the World Bank&#x27;s World Development Indicators (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator</a>), and even Scripps! (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scrippsco2.ucsd.edu&#x2F;data&#x2F;merged_ice_core&#x2F;merged_ice_core_yearly.csv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scrippsco2.ucsd.edu&#x2F;data&#x2F;merged_ice_core&#x2F;merged_ice_c...</a>)<p>Your response to this is to make silly jokes. Nice.