Village houses near the massive Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia on Sept. 21, 2021. BAY ISMOYO / AFP via Getty Images
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A new study by Joshua Pearce of London’s Western University and Richard Parncutt of the University of Graz in Austria has found that, if global heating reaches or surpasses two degrees Celsius by the year 2100, there is a high probability that over the next century humans, mostly the wealthiest, will be responsible for the deaths of approximately one billion mostly poorer humans.
Many of the most powerful and profitable businesses on the planet are part of the oil and gas industry, which is both indirectly and directly responsible…
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