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Report: Climate Change Threatens Global Health

  • #Weather
  • #Hurricanes and tropical storms
  • #Climate change
  • #Floods
  • #COVID-19
  • #Fossil fuel
  • #Pollution
  • #Environment
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  • #Medicine & healthcare
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  • #China
  • #Mali
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OCT 2022
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story last updated OCT 2022

The Spin

Narrative A

Reports are increasingly clear — heat-related deaths worldwide have increased significantly since the start of the millennium, extreme heat is forcing millions across the globe into food poverty, and pollution is threatening the physical and mental wellbeing of the global population. Governments worldwide need to act to protect our health.

NBC

Narrative B

Despite claims that extreme weather poses a risk to global health, there has actually been a 92% decline in the per decade death toll from natural disasters since the 1920s. Rises in global temperature since industrialization have been relatively small and humans have proved their adaptability through new technology. Human health is not threatened by climate change, so long as populations have the resources to predict extreme weather and protect themselves from it.

Unherd

Metaculus Prediction


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