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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide
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Climate dad to E, J, and C. Working on decarbonization and environmental justice in Cleveland. Founded the Cleveland Refugee Bike Project. Supports Juventus & Eintracht. Opinions my own and probably wrong.
![From Adam Becker's More Everything Forever:
astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz. "Because think about what an asteroid strike is. It's something that comes out of the blue, that you have absolutely no way of preventing, that you didn't know was going to happen. And I think the reason that you don't hear climate change in the mouths of people who [say] we need to create a backup for humanity-maybe they will talk about it in another forum, but they don't talk about those two things togetheris because climate change implies human responsibility. Climate change implies actions that they are responsible for." Rather than face that responsibility,
billionaires are searching for a way to avoid it. absolutely despise this idea of backing up humanity... (Billionaires] have essentially the most means and the most power to do something about the problems that we actually face, whether they be change or income inequality," they say. "This idea of backing up humanity is about getting out of responsibility by making it seem that we have this Get Out of Jail Free card."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wvyq44vfj3m3mkw3slpr4lrf/bafkreicaysnhcxjx4ewd3slmtpqw5jgehmchpkon5kuium77vhbo3myuxm)
