> take the problem away, and the number of premature deaths will fall by many millions. I think this is a naive way to look at it. The majority of air pollutio

> take the problem away, and the number of premature deaths will fall by many millions. I think this is a naive way to look at it. The majority of air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels. However, people don’t burn fossil fuels just for the high(unlike cigarettes). Our world is built on fossil fuels. Without burning fossil fuels, likely billions would starve. There would also have been no way to transport the vaccines before they went bad. Fossil fuels and the economy of trade it created lifted billions out of poverty which has its own mortality. Should we try to do better, of course, but first we have to take a realistic view of the situation. Otherwise we end up like Joe Biden who goes to a climate conference and talks about the need to cut fossil fuels and then comes home and opens up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help make sure gas prices do t go too high.