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Climate change threatens our health and survival within decades.

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dc.contributor.author Costello, Anthony
dc.contributor.author Romanello, Marina
dc.contributor.author Hartinger Peña, Stella Maria
dc.contributor.author Gordon-Strachan, Georgiana
dc.contributor.author Huq, Saleemul
dc.contributor.author Gong, Peng
dc.contributor.author Kjellstrom, Tord
dc.contributor.author Ekins, Paul
dc.contributor.author Montgomery, Hugh
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-20T13:28:09Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-20T13:28:09Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13136
dc.description.abstract Climate change harms health in all populations. Heat-related illness and deaths are increasing worldwide, from heatstroke, adverse pregnancy outcomes, worsened kidney function, and adverse mental health effects. For those working outdoors, heat limits physical work and labour productivity, undermining livelihoods. Extreme weather events cause illness (eg, through particulate pollution from fires, or water contamination from floods), direct injury (eg, physical injury and drowning), and chronic malnutrition by reducing agricultural output and increasing infections. Climate change means many infectious diseases expand into previously safe areas and could increase pandemic risk. Loss of physical assets and damage to infrastructure affect essential health and social services and socioeconomic wellbeing. Together, these factors drive population migration, political upheaval, and economic damage, all of which impact health. For these reasons the 2009 Lancet Commission on managing the health effects of climate change described climate change as the “greatest global health threat of the 21st century”. However, it was wrong, both qualitatively and temporally. The threat is now to our very survival and to that of the ecosystem upon which we depend. Grave impacts of climate change are already with us and could worsen catastrophically within decades. A UN Environment Programme report states there is “no credible pathway to 1·5°C in place” today... en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartofseries Lancet
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Climate change en_US
dc.subject health en_US
dc.subject survival en_US
dc.subject.mesh Climate Change
dc.subject.mesh Health
dc.subject.mesh Survival
dc.title Climate change threatens our health and survival within decades. en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02353-4
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.08
dc.relation.issn 1474-547X


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