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Originally Posted by accord1999

It would mostly come from deaths in winter from fuel poverty. There are already claims that tens of thousands of old and vulnerable Brits are dying from not being able to keep their homes warm enough:






https://www.e3g.org/news/media-room/...o-cold-housing

That's really interesting, and thanks for opening my eyes to this issue - it definitely goes to show that policies designed to reduce fossil fuel usage should take things like this into account. On the plus side, it seems like improving the energy efficiency of homes (insulating, etc) should have the effect of both improving this metric as well as enabling reduced fossil fuel consumption.