On: The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle

[thelastgallon]

Yes, lets continue on with the $7 trillion subsidies/year (worldwide), 10M deaths from air pollution, almost all diseases/cancers linked to pollution. Its sacrilege to talk about fossil fuel subsidies.

[unnamed76ri → thelastgallon]

“Almost all diseases/cancers linked to pollution” is such a bizarre claim.

[anonymars → unnamed76ri]

I don't think it's an unreasonable claim for fossil fuels to account for the vast majority of air pollution deaths

But apparently it is: I certainly didn't peg desert dust to be top spot. Anakin was right

https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

[unnamed76ri → anonymars]

The comment I was replying to saying that almost all diseases and cancers are caused by it isn’t the same thing though. Disease and cancer has been around for a long long time before the use of fossil fuels.

[anonymars → unnamed76ri]

I think "almost all diseases/cancers [that are] linked to pollution" is a much more likely read than "almost all diseases/cancers [are] linked to pollution"

Admittedly I did smush the two together so I'd have to rethink whether "all deaths [that are] linked to pollution" is as reasonable as "all deaths [that are] linked to air pollution" -- I suspect it probably still would be because of the sheer scale of fossil fuels, but regardless, desert sand still beats fossil fuels anyway

[jeffbee → anonymars]

My interpretation of the statement was that it means all kinds of these diseases are linked to air pollution, not all cases.