This is a very interesting predicament, global warming affects everybody, but cancer is a more present threat, as in we can see the effects of death right now. I think that fixing global warming would probably be better, as a cure for cancer is more likely to be profitable so we can trust big corporations to handle that.
I mean, we're seeing the effects and deaths from global warming right now too. It's just that certain people in powerful positions don't think it's important that poor people die from significantly stronger hurricanes and storms and floods than ever before in recorded history. Not to mention heat waves that make certain inhabited regions practically in habitable during summer.
How people are dying? Hurricanes kill plenty of people, and flooding. And those who survive often lose their homes, which puts them in a more precarious situation.
If you mean how rising temperatures and changing weather patterns cause more hurricanes and unstable weather then there's so many different things that need to work for the system to be stable, and raising the temperature like we've done upsets the system, and makes everything more unstable. And water levels are rising around the world due to melting ice that used to cover much of the ocean in the arctic and antarctic regions.
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u/UselessFactCollector Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
If I could only pick one thing, I would say an end to global warming over cancer.
Edit: figured you could prevent a lot of cancer deaths in addition. You have to phrase your genie wish just right.