A huge -- and hugely important -- new study from Harvard, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester, and University College London, published on Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research, finds some startling numbers. In 2018, one death out of five was caused by air pollution -- that's more than the number of deaths caused by aids, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. In the United States alone, particulate matter given off by fossil-fuel burning killed about 350,000 people; by comparison, guns killed about 39,470 people in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The fossil-fuel industry is not just killing off the climate system -- it's taking people in enormous numbers.
Connor DeVane hiked the 31-hundred-mile Continental Divide Trail, from Canada to Mexico, in 2016. Along the way, he talked with lots of people working on aspects of climate action, from civil disobedience to the municipalization of utilities. The resulting movie is free to stream online, and lovely.
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