An excellent piece by Nina Ignaczak
Climate change is already impacting health across the globe. A September 2021 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine calling on world leaders to take emergency action to limit climate change cited a sobering statistic: In the past 20 years, heat-related mortality among people over 65 has increased by more than 50%.
Climate change's health impacts disproportionately impact children, the elderly, minorities, poorer communities, and those with underlying health problems. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the health effects of climate change include “increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries and premature deaths related to extreme weather events, changes in the prevalence and geographical distribution of food- and water-borne illnesses and other infectious diseases, and threats to mental health.”
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