Gernot Wagner on Nostr: This election isn't a close call. Last time around, according to The Lancet ...
This election isn't a close call.
Last time around, according to The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era, the Trump administration's environmental policies resulted “in more than 22,000 extra deaths in 2019 alone,” largely from worsened local air pollution.
The Rhodium Group estimated in 2020 that “in the absence of new federal policy, Trump's rollbacks will increase US emissions by 1.8 gigatons cumulatively through 2035.”
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Last time around, according to The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era, the Trump administration's environmental policies resulted “in more than 22,000 extra deaths in 2019 alone,” largely from worsened local air pollution.
The Rhodium Group estimated in 2020 that “in the absence of new federal policy, Trump's rollbacks will increase US emissions by 1.8 gigatons cumulatively through 2035.”
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