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It's saying that society pays a price for fossil fuel emissions, in terms of damage to our climate and our health. Millions of people die every year from fossil
by 93po 2y ago
It's saying that society pays a price for fossil fuel emissions, in terms of damage to our climate and our health. Millions of people die every year from fossil fuel emissions. If we attach a price to that death and destruction, and apply that as a cost towards fossil fuels, it makes the financial subsidies of wind and solar insignificant.
- Our_Benefactors 2y ago> Millions of people die every year from fossil fuel emissions Citation needed. “Millions a year” is undoubtedly using some flimsy justification for the figure.
- 93po 2y agonope https://hsph.harvard.edu/climate-health-c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/climate-health-c-change/news/fossil... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38030155/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38030155/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/29/air-pollution-from-fossil-fuels-kills-5-million-people-a-year https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/29/air-poll... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1819989116 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1819989116 https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077784 https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj-2023-077784 there is tons of data to support this, and it's a widely accepted reality
- Our_Benefactors 2y agoThese all seem to reference the same model, the actual studies are all pay walled, and there’s no way to get access to the model. Priesthood vibes