Lithium-ion batteries caused ’36 deaths’ in first half of 2023: Tim Blair

The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair says nuclear has caused “30 deaths” in the last 68 years but lithium-ion batteries caused “36 deaths” in the first half of 2023. “There is also the issue of nuclear energy, which, apparently, is a great terror even though you put all the nuclear disasters together of the last 68 years, I think there’s been four or five major disasters you could classify and 30 deaths,” Mr Blair told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “These things [lithium-ion batteries], I think, worldwide, 36 deaths just in the first half of 2023, yet there’s no panic.”