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Every year 8.7 million people die to fossil fuels
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RabbleRebel lemmy.wtf RabbleRebel@lemmy.wtf
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QuietGenesis lemmy.world QuietGenesis@lemmy.world
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Source?

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TheDemonBuer lemmy.world TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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New research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London, found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested—meaning that air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and diesel was responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths worldwide.Link

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masterspace lemmy.ca masterspace@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-22
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Like I get the point you're trying to make, but isn't terrorism inherently flashy and designed to get attention, whereas oil polluters try to keep a low profile and stop people from noticing?

Like you could call it mass murder, but they kind of go out of their way to avoid creating terror and panic around it, which means that it's not really terrorism, is it?

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sik0fewl piefed.ca sik0fewl@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-07-06
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Like I get the point you're trying to make, but isn't terrorism inherently flashy and designed to get attention, whereas oil polluters try to keep a low profile and stop people from noticing? Like you could call it mass murder, but they kind of go out of their way to avoid creating terror and panic around it, which means that it's not really terrorism, is it?

I think they meant capitalism.

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masterspace lemmy.ca masterspace@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-22
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I think they meant capitalism.

The title text references fossil fuels specifically though, in addition to the picture showing an oil spill.

There's nothing really anti-capitalist about it, it could be corporate propaganda in a solar punk capitalist society.

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