The rapidly warming climate is the “greatest threat” to global public health, more than 200 medical journals are warning in an unprecedented joint statement that urges world leaders to cut heat-trapping emissions to avoid “catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse.”
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The editorial, which was published in leading journals such as The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal, says the world can’t wait for the COVID-19 pandemic to pass before addressing climate change.
“No temperature rise is ‘safe’,” the editorial says. “In the past 20 years, heat-related mortality among people over 65 years of age has increased by more than 50%.”
Source: npr