We must stop mining fossil fuels.
Dr David Shearman has long campaigned to end fossil fuel mining in Australia. He is highly qualified and was a co-founder of Doctors for the Environment Australia in 2001.
He quotes the scientific fact that “For every thousand tonnes of fossil fuels mined, one person dies.” This leads to the utterly abhorrent statistic of 540,000 deaths annually as a consequence of using fossil fuels. Obviously it must not continue.
However, at present gas in Australia is being hailed generally as a transitional fuel to the clean energy future. But Shearman describes it as damaging especially to children in our homes; as escaping from drillings and during transportation across our nation; plus via our exports to the world where its emissions cause deadly climate change.
He concludes rightly that fossil fuels are deadly and must be urgently ended.
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