Posted on 10/25/2022 11:04:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Extreme weather from climate change triggered hunger in nearly 100 million people and increased heat deaths by 68% in vulnerable populations worldwide as the world’s “fossil fuel addiction” degrades public health each year, doctors reported in a new study.
Worldwide the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and biomass forms air pollution that kills 1.2 million people a year, including 11,800 in the United States, according to a report Tuesday in the prestigious medical journal Lancet.
“Our health is at the mercy of fossil fuels,” said University College of London health and climate researcher Marina Romanello, executive director of the Lancet Countdown. “We’re seeing a persistent addiction to fossil fuels that is not only amplifying the health impacts of climate change, but which is also now at this point compounding with other concurrent crises that we’re globally facing, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis, energy crisis and food crisis that were triggered after the war in Ukraine.”
In the annual Lancet Countdown, which looks at climate change and health, nearly 100 researchers across the globe highlighted 43 indicators where climate change is making people sicker or weaker, with a new look at hunger added this year. […]
In praising the report, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres put it even more bluntly than the doctors: “The climate crisis is killing us.” …
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Riiiiighht.
Medical Doctors changing into Spin Doctors.
Let me guess: Greta Thunberg is behind this.
The fossil fuels required to grow and deliver food...
No fossil fuel, no heat and no AC, millions will die. AP is full of it as are the fake doctors who support this BS.
Sorry, docs, but your MD degrees give you a lot of very specific knowledge, but it doesn't make you gods among us who are experts on everything who must be listened to.
Same doctors that said our injections are safe and effective?
Doctors who refused to fight back against the COVID lies killed millions.
If you want a ‘stature’ job in the NHS, you definitely don’t say anything politically incorrect or not ‘woke’.
AP, Seth Borenstein, Lancet? LOL.
Yup. How many people will freeze to death this winter? No doubt the doctors will charge their deaths to climate change.
On the contrary, such convenient sources of energy feed and otherwise provide life support for billions. Without that the current world population would starve back by 3/4.
Some people...
Is she a doctor now? I doubt if she could define what a woman is either. 🤪😆😀
*My pink ass ping
Yaaaawn
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You’re making me laugh (out loud) and it’s after midnight in California! I probably scared that family of Racoons in the back yard.
Is he a biologist too? 😆🤪😀👍
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