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Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds (theguardian.com)
5 points by littlestymaar on Oct 7, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



> The biggest factors were failing to make polluters pay for the deaths and poor health caused by air pollution (42%) and for the heatwaves and other impacts of global heating (29%).

So 71% of this $11m number is failing to account for supposed externalities. It is a stretch to call this a subsidy. I would say it is a very misleading headline.


insane amounts. It's time we move on from fossil fuel. Not easy but we got to start




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