What ‘Chimney Sweep Testicle’ Can Teach Us About Fossil Fuels’ Staggering Health Consequences | Coal, oil and gas have been killing people for centuries. We’re still paying for it.

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ending our addiction to fossil fuels will further benefit the climate and our health. Do we have the balls to do it?

You know they had an old-timey name for it better than “chimney sweep testicle”

Fast forward 250 years and the staggering health consequences of burning fossil fuels continues to impact millions. A recent study linked oil and gas particulate pollution with 90,000 premature deaths in the U.S. each year...

Outdoor air pollution worldwide kills 3 million people each year according to the Organization of Economic Development (OECD) and costs the global economy $3.5 trillion. About half of those costs are linked to pollution from fossil fuel road transport within OECD countries.
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What other industrial sector is allowed to inflict such enormous externalized costs on society without compensation? Even the tobacco industry was eventually held accountable for the billions spent treating ailments related to their dangerous product.

Why is the oil and gas industry somehow exempt from the well-documented burden that burning fossil fuels places on the health care system?

I will never look at Mary Poppins the same.

Great article, well written and sourced. Shame most of the people in power are paid not to care.

So painful was the condition that the afflicted would sometimes resort to cutting off sensitive parts of their own bodies

Jesus, can you imagine having to take a knife to your own testicles