It absolutely is life and our new normal.

The weakest/oldest/youngest dying to the elements has been the norm for 250,000 years or longer.

We just got used to our technology and cheap energy over the last 100 years. We’re not even returning to that normal, the stagnation of political will to fix things and the accelerating destruction of the climate humans have evolved in are just making things worse.

We are spoiled to the point that 18 deaths is a headline.