Editing Pollution (section)

=== Fossil fuel related industries ===
Outdoor air pollution attributable to fossil fuel use alone causes ~3.61 million deaths annually, making it one [[List of causes of death by rate|of the top <!--underlying causes-->contributors to human death]], beyond being a major driver of climate change whereby greenhouse gases are considered per se as a form of pollution {{see above|[[#Greenhouse gas emissions|above]]}}.<ref name="PNAS2019">{{Cite journal|title=Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate|journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]]|volume=116 |issue=15 |pages=7192–7197 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1819989116 |last1=Lelieveld |first1=J. |last2=Klingmüller  |first2=K. |last3=Pozzer |first3=A. |last4=Burnett |first4=R. T. |last5=Haines |first5=A. |last6=Ramanathan |first6=V. |s2cid=85515425|pmc=6462052 |pmid= 30910976 |date= 25 March 2019 |bibcode=2019PNAS..116.7192L|doi-access=free}}</ref>