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In reply to the discussion: Bill Gates on 60 Minutes just now. [View all]progree
(10,901 posts)9. Latest number on air pollution: 8.7 Million deaths in 2018
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127143082
'Invisible killer': fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds, The Guardian, 2/9/21
Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, a staggering one in five of all people who died that year, new research has found.
Countries with the most prodigious consumption of fossil fuels to power factories, homes and vehicles are suffering the highest death tolls, with the study finding more than one in 10 deaths in both the US and Europe were caused by the resulting pollution, along with nearly a third of deaths in eastern Asia, which includes China. Death rates in South America and Africa were significantly lower.
Scientists have established links between pervasive air pollution from burning fossil fuels and cases of heart disease, respiratory ailments and even the loss of eyesight. Without fossil fuel emissions, the average life expectancy of the worlds population would increase by more than a year, while global economic and health costs would fall by about $2.9tn.
Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, a staggering one in five of all people who died that year, new research has found.
Countries with the most prodigious consumption of fossil fuels to power factories, homes and vehicles are suffering the highest death tolls, with the study finding more than one in 10 deaths in both the US and Europe were caused by the resulting pollution, along with nearly a third of deaths in eastern Asia, which includes China. Death rates in South America and Africa were significantly lower.
Scientists have established links between pervasive air pollution from burning fossil fuels and cases of heart disease, respiratory ailments and even the loss of eyesight. Without fossil fuel emissions, the average life expectancy of the worlds population would increase by more than a year, while global economic and health costs would fall by about $2.9tn.
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If we keep going as we are now carbon will cause cataclysmic human carnage. This from
c-rational
Feb 2021
#5
I agree on both counts - school privatization is a bad idea, not just poor, and wealth does not
c-rational
Feb 2021
#6
His false assertions regarding schools also don't make his assertions about energy false nt
Shermann
Feb 2021
#7
And the transcript plus. Warning: the "so-called renewable" energy haters won't like this.
progree
Feb 2021
#11
If I thought Bill Gates was oracular, it might disturb me. However I don't do...
NNadir
Feb 2021
#13
I forgot, what were the CO2 atmospheric concentrations at Mauna Loa when the first
progree
Feb 2021
#14
Solar and wind didn't become economically competiitve until a few years ago (with subsidies)
progree
Feb 2021
#16
So if we replace all fossil fuel and so-called renewable with nuclear at $12 Million/MW,
progree
Feb 2021
#20
A gigawatt for a system with 20-30% capacity utilization is not equivalent to a gigawatt...
NNadir
Feb 2021
#25
"A gigawatt for a system with 20-30% capacity utilization is not equivalent to a gigawatt...
progree
Feb 2021
#26
Maybe you should write to Bill Gates the reasons why so-called renewables have not worked,
progree
Feb 2021
#27
Too bad, he has a lot bigger megaphone and influence than you do, so not giving a shit about
progree
Feb 2021
#31
I am not talking about the ability to advertise. Trump had a great deal of influence as well.
NNadir
Feb 2021
#34
By your Mauna Loa criteria, the trillions spent on solar, wind, and nuclear have not even remotely
progree
Feb 2021
#39
Re: China's impressive statistics, neither of these are: 406 TWh wind, 330 TWh nuclear
progree
Feb 2021
#28
I remarked on them as energy. We obviously disagree mightily on how impressive less than 2 EJ...
NNadir
Feb 2021
#32
On reliability differences between nuclear and solar/wind, that's what I was advocating
progree
Feb 2021
#33
"We obviously disagree mightily" (sigh, here we go again, assuming I thinking something
progree
Feb 2021
#35