Oil Spills and Gas Flaring
Oil spills contaminate marine and coastal ecosystems, while routine gas flaring releases climate-warming gases and harmful air pollutants. The supplied evidence documents substantial health burdens from U.S. flaring and broader ecological and socioeconomic harm, but does not establish a unified global toll.
Severity score
48.2
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
31Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
36People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
60Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
78Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
62Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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