Fossil Fooled: Lives vs. Lies
For over a century, fossil fuels have been the favorite villain of the political left. Oil, coal, and natural gas are the boogeymen blamed for everything from melting ice caps to hurricanes to your aunt’s asthma. But what if I told you that the biggest threat to humanity isn’t fossil fuels—it’s the lies we’ve been told about them?
Here’s the truth the climate cult doesn’t want you to hear: fossil fuels haven’t killed us—they’ve saved us.
Let’s do something the green elites hate: look at the numbers.
In the 1920s, before fossil fuel infrastructure was widespread, more than 400,000 people a year died from climate-related causes—floods, droughts, storms, extreme temperatures. Fast forward to today: fewer than 10,000 people die annually from those same causes worldwide.
That’s a 98% drop in climate-related deaths, even while the global population has more than quadrupled.
How is that possible?
It wasn’t wind turbines or solar panels. It wasn’t a Greta Thunberg tweet or a John Kerry jet-set speech. It was fossil fuels—and the civilization they empowered.
Fossil fuels made the world stronger, safer, faster, and more prepared.
They power the satellites that warn us about incoming hurricanes. The computers that model disaster response. The ambulances and helicopters that race toward danger. The generators that keep........
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