Climate change is already killing people, hurting their health,
worsening air pollution and helping the spread of infectious diseases, a
global team of researchers said Monday.
Environmental disruptions are also affecting
economies and costing hundreds of billions of dollars a year, mostly
because of extreme weather events, the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change found.
“Between 2000-2016, there has been a 46 percent increase in the
number of weather-related disasters, and 125 million adults aged over 65
were exposed to heat waves,” the Lancet, an international medical
journal, wrote.
“Increasing temperatures have led to around
5.3 percent loss in labor productivity, and economic losses linked to
climate-related extreme weather events were estimated at $129 billion in
2016.
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