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Every year, many thousands die as the result of fossil fuel pollution.
"In particular, these figures reveal that the G20 countries are wasting trillions of dollars each year on subsidies for fossil fuel pollution," Stern said.
For over 200 years, modern civilisation has been built on fossil fuels; now climate science says we must phase out fossil fuel pollution in just a few decades.
And so when it comes to that pivotal what's-the-delay question, his answer is simply that at the moment, it's free to emit fossil fuel pollution; all we need to do is enact some kind of carbon tax, and our problems will be solved.
Stern criticised the UK government's recent attacks on renewable energy subsidies: "The government should remember that if it wants to cut the subsidies for low-carbon energy, it should cut the subsidies for fossil fuel pollution that are at the core of the problem for which clean technology is the sensible and attractive solution".
"Given that we've built our economy and our society over the last 200 years on fossil fuels and we've got to get out of at least fossil fuel pollution in the next 30 or 40 years, we've got to act pretty quickly," he said.
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