Pollution is extremely deadly if you don't count only deaths, but also shortening of lifespan and healthspan. Less power generated per person working in energy

Pollution is extremely deadly if you don't count only deaths, but also shortening of lifespan and healthspan. Less power generated per person working in energy industry also significantly tanks productivity of a society as a whole (consider coalminers [and the casualties] part of that). There are these interesting pages: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and_radioactive_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a... So around 300k casualties of war. Consider that if nuclear bombing wasn't a possibility, we would certainly try to develop another technology capable of that level of destruction. Who knows for how long would the second world war stretch out if nuclear bombing wasn't a possibility; maybe there would be more significant global wars in that alternative timeline.