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Environmentalist Burns Himself To Death To Protest Fossil Fuels

Joseph Curl

An environmental activist committed suicide on Saturday in a park in Brooklyn, New York, by setting himself on fire.

The man was protesting the use of “fossil fuel” — which he said was leading to an environmental disaster in the world — when he poured gasoline on himself and burned himself to death in Prospect Park.

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