cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65299000
Diesel engines fitted with illegal software to cheat pollution tests have caused 16,000 deaths in France since 2009, according to the first study to calculate the human cost of the “Dieselgate” scandal that exposed widespread fraud by car manufacturers.
Yeah - I never understood why so many people shrugged off this mass murder and mass pollution. Everybody involved should be still in prison.
Some were sent to prison. But not for long enough.
“This is what was done in the United States as soon as the scandal broke, to save thousands of lives. We’re talking about thousands of asthma cases, hundreds of thousands of days not worked for the economy. It’s worth it. We must act.”
Finally we did something right.