Among other issues, Volkswagen killed roughly 1200 people by cheating on their emissions tests.

https://lae.mit.edu/2024/06/28/study-quantifies-premature-de...

Besides the whataboutism, this is 1200 premature deaths (of mostly frail people). As much as I'm sensible to the topic of air pollution, putting that number closer to the number of, I dunno, premature deaths attributable to Coal power plants will give a more realistic view of the problem