Ch. 25 Fossil Fuels Kill... Kind of a Lot
"...thanks to more rigorous science, we can now see that fossil fuels cause far more harm than previously understood." - Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard Chan School Our continued dependence on fossil fuels and Second Industrial Revolution technologies has a very real cost in human lives. But not just human lives. Every living thing on the Earth is negatively impacted by fossil fuel pollution and emissions. Fossil fuels kill. Fossil fuels kill directly and indirectly. They are also responsible for the ecological changes that will continue to cause many more deaths and suffering. Unfortunately these impacts will be felt even years after we have ceased the use of all fossil fuels. Direct death and disease from fossil fuel use. According to new research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London, more...