Before we consider the long-term impacts of climate change, let’s look at how each source stacks up in terms of short-term health risks. To make these comparisons fair, we can’t just look at the totaldeaths from each source: fossil fuels still dominate our global electricity mix, so we would expect that they would kill. .
Looking at deaths per terawatt-hour can seem abstract. Let’s try to put it in perspective. Let’s consider how many deaths each source would cause for an average town of. .
The good news is that there is no trade-off between the safest sources of energy in the short term and the least damaging for the climate in the long term. They are one and the same, as the chart below shows. In the chart on the left-hand side, we have the same.
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