[kova12]

You are not accounting for opportunity cost here. Yes, there were incidents, and people died, and there will be more. But there are also victims on the other end. People who died because they had to breathe coal. People who died because the power was down or too expensive to run AC or some hospital machine.

When people are deprived from basic necessities, their life revolves around survival instead of moving humanity forward. How many Elon Musks have died or lived a life in which they could not realize their potential because of no access to power? If there was cheap and abundant power everywhere, you could get rid of the whole class of environmental and societal issues altogether, not only saving lives, but greatly improving life quality.

Think of how many problems Internet brought up. And then how many it solved.