‘Local air pollution around the world kills about 6.5 million people annually.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Doctors have revealed that millions are already suffering the effects, in the spread of infectious diseases, uneven crop yields and longer allergy seasons
theguardian.com - by Christiana Figueres - October 31, 2017
A report just published in the Lancet from the specially created Lancet Countdown initiative, reveals just how bad climate change is for public health. The diagnosis reveals that hundreds of millions of people are already suffering the health impacts of climate change. Its insidious creep is being felt in multiple ways: rising temperatures are hastening the spread of infectious diseases; crop yields are becoming uneven and unpredictable, worsening the hunger and malnourishment for some of the most vulnerable people on the planet; allergy seasons are getting longer; and at times it is simply too hot for farmers to work in the fields.
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The Health Impacts of Global Warming Could Ruin the Economy
thinkprogress.org - by Joe Romm - October 31, 2017
. . . Although the focus of this report is public health, the Lancet also examines the economic impacts of global warming . . .
. . . The study finds that “global labour capacity of rural labourers, such as farmers, has fallen by 5.3 percent from 2000 to 2016 due to rising temperatures and the inability to work when it’s too hot.” . . .
. . . Rising temperatures “pose profound threats to occupational health and labour productivity, particularly for people undertaking manual, outdoor labour in hot areas.” . . .
. . . The productivity loss from warming could exceed the “combined cost of all other projected economic losses” from climate change, explained one expert — and yet it has “never been included in economic models of future warming.”
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