'Invisible killer': fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds
theguardian.com- Pollution from burning fossil fuels killed 1 in 5 of all the people that died in 2018.
- By region, in the US and Europe it was 1 in 10 people, in eastern Asia 1 in 3, and it was the lowest in Africa and Southern America.
- These numbers are larger than the death toll of smoking tobacco and malaria combined.
- Air pollution is an invisible killer, but study authors were still shocked at how big this problem is.
- Experts see this is a call to urgency, and suggest that the process of going carbon-neutral should be sped up.

on February 12, 2021