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The eighth update of a first foreign report shows that more and more people are in poor health and dying from excessive heat, drought and other climate problems.
By Delger Erdenesanaa
Climate change continues to have an aggravating effect on health and mortality, according to a comprehensive report released Tuesday by a foreign team of 114 researchers.
One of the most surprising findings is that heat-related deaths among people 65 and older have increased by 85% since the 1990s, according to models that vary by nature and demographics. , are particularly vulnerable to health hazards, such as heat stroke. With global temperature rising, the elderly and infants are now exposed to twice as many heatwave days per year as they were between 1986 and 2005.
The report, published in the medical journal The Lancet, also points to the estimated source of lost income and lack of confidence in food. Globally, exposure to excessive heat and the consequent loss of productivity or inability to work may have resulted in revenue losses of up to $863 billion in 2022. And, in 2021, an estimated 127 million more people experienced moderate or severe food distrust, similar to food distrust. Heat waves and droughts, compared to the period 1981-2010.
“We have lost very valuable years of climate action and this has come at a huge cost in terms of health,” said Marina Romanello, a researcher at University College London and executive director of the report, known as The Lancet Countdown. The loss of life, the consequences that other people are suffering, is irreversible. “
The signs of public fitness tracked in the report have declined over the nine years that the researchers have produced issues to the assessment.
The analysis also examined health outcomes for individual countries, including the United States. Heat-related deaths of adults 65 and older increased by 88 percent between 2018 and 2022, compared with 2000-04. An estimated 23,200 older Americans died in 2022 because of exposure to extreme heat.
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