There is also far more fusion fuel than for any other fuel-consuming energy source. Fusion fuel is also much more widely distributed, since all likely fuel elements are found abundantly in seawater. There would be no Persian Gulf-type wars over access to fusion fuel. Given the destructive nature of wars, this is good for the environment as well as good for people. With fusion, you don't need to rip up the ground like coal mines do, or worry about oil spills, or devote miles and miles of land to wind or solar farms.
Fusion creates more energy with less resource investment than any other form of energy known to man.
These differences add up to both safety and environmental advantages for fusion. On the environmental side, fusion differs from fission in that one can control the waste products by controlling the fuels used and the materials exposed to neutrons produced in the fusion reaction. Thus fission results in large amounts of concentrated radioactive waste. In fusion, one has the opportunity to minimize or even perhaps to eliminate the radioactive waste problem. The only sources of radioactive waste in a D-T reactor are stray tritium atoms and the reactor structure which is exposed to neutron radiation.