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Political Factoid
Why fossil fuels appear so cheap:
- Taxpayers subsidize* fossil
fuels directly, and indirectly
by protecting supply lines.
- The impacts of air and water
pollution are borne by the
public:
e.g., if your child gets asthma,
you pay the costs, not the
fossil fuel company.
- The costs of climate
catastrophes are borne by
the victims and taxpayers.
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James Hansen
in The Des Moines Register
2014-Oct-11
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