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Climate change is impacting health in a myriad of ways, including by leading to death and illness from increasingly frequent extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, storms and floods, the disruption of food systems, increases in zoonoses and food-, water- and vector-borne diseases, and mental health issues. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from undernutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress alone. Global heating of even 1.5°C is not considered safe, however; every additional tenth of a degree of warming will take a serious toll on people’s lives and health. In 2022, intense European heatwaves led to an abnormal increase in deaths. The more average temperatures increase, the worse the impacts of climate change become. Things are likely to worsen in the coming decades, but scientists argue urgent action can limit the worst effects of climate change. Global warming is real and getting worse, Pielke said, yet still it’s possible that humanity will be able to adapt to, and compensate for, its effects. Farmers gradually adopted sprinkler and drip irrigation systems, rather than more wasteful flood irrigation, not to conserve water but because the technology provided higher crop yields and larger profit margins. In the 1920s, the estimated average annual death toll from natural catastrophes around the globe averaged more than 500,000 a year. A 2020 Morning Consult poll found that a quarter of adults without children say climate change is part of the reason they didn’t have children. A Morgan Stanley analysis found that the decision “to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline.” “I unequivocally reject, scientifically and personally, the notion that children are somehow doomed to an unhappy life,” Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at Columbia, told me. “The effects of climate change are felt most strongly by communities that are already overburdened, including Indigenous peoples, people of color and low-income communities,” the report finds. Monday’s report said scientists have “very high confidence” that “climate-related hazards will continue to grow, increasing morbidity and mortality across all regions of the United States.” More extreme heat events, more communities forced to inhale toxic wildfire smoke, warmer temperatures that increase the transmission of diseases and other factors are exposing ever more Americans to the health risks posed by a warming atmosphere. “These frontline communities experience harmful climate impacts first and worst, yet are often the least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.” A similar majority (55%) said climate change is having a serious impact now and an even larger majority (62%) said it is having a great deal or at least some effect on their communities. A solid majority (56%) overall called climate change a major threat, including almost 9 in 10 Democrats and a slim majority of independents. Overall, a majority of respondents – 53% – said addressing climate change should be given priority even at the risk of slowing the economy. And last year, cities in Puerto Rico filed a racketeering lawsuit against fossil fuel companies, industry groups and others claiming they conspired to mislead the public about climate change. That warming has led to extreme weather in recent years, including heat waves, droughts and floods. The company now says it's "committed to being part of the solution to climate change and the risks it poses."
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“It’s important for people to recognize that coastal systems are feeling the effects of sea level rise and climate change today,” said Reide Corbett, a coastal oceanographer at East Carolina University and executive director at the Coastal Studies Institute. In addition, researchers estimate that sea level rise will create “a profound shift in coastal flooding” over the coming decades by allowing storm surges and tides to reach further inland. “We need to think about how we are developing, and developing in a way that does lead to a more resilient community going forward,” Corbett said. The biases against alternative meats are deep and long-lasting: According to one recent peer-reviewed study, consumers’ top association with meat was “delicious”; the third-highest association with plant-based meat was “disgusting.” (“Vegan” and “tofu” also made the cut.) Researchers estimate that 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from raising meat. JP Frossard, the vice president of consumer foods at the investment firm Rabobank, says that faced with a choice between sustainability or health, consumers often opt for health.
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