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"The health of the world’s people is at the mercy of a global addiction to
fossil fuels, according to a study.
The analysis reports an increase in heat deaths, hunger and infectious disease
as the climate crisis intensifies, while governments continue to give more in
subsidies to fossil fuels than to the poorer countries experiencing the impacts
of global heating.
The climate emergency is compounding the food, energy and cost of living
crises, the report says. For example, almost half a trillion hours of work were
lost in 2021 due to extreme heat. This mostly affected agricultural workers in
poorer countries, cutting food supplies and incomes.
However, the report says urgent, health-centred action to tackle global heating
could save millions of lives a year and enable people to thrive rather than
just survive, with cleaner air and better diets.
The report, by the Lancet Countdown group on health and climate change, is
titled
Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels. It was produced by almost 100
experts from 51 institutions spanning every continent and published in the
run-up the UN Cop27 climate summit in Egypt."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
