Consider fossil fuel deaths when contemplating fossil fuel bailouts
“Fossil fuel pollution is killing 8.7 million people a year, study says”
By Scott Tong
These revelations should resonate with government policymakers around the world considering fossil fuel investments to stimulate pandemic-hit economies, said Gernot Wagner, a climate and environmental economist at New York University.
“We are doing lots of things to avoid deaths from COVID-19,” Wagner said. “One of the worst things we could be doing is stimulating our economy with measures that then lead to more deaths on the fossil fuel front.”