And she points Standard temperatures By 2023, the hottest year on record, the average person will experience 50 more days of dangerous temperatures than they would without climate change, according to The Lancet Countdown, an annual report based on the work of dozens of experts, academic institutions and UN agencies. Including Global Health Organization.
The elderly are most at risk, as the number of heat-related deaths among people over the age of 65 last year reached a level 167% higher than the number of such deaths in the 1990s.
According to the report, it was not Climate change Researchers would have expected this number to rise by only 65% from the 1990s.
“From year to year, deaths directly linked to climate change are increasing,” said Marina Belén Romanello, executive director of The Lancet Countdown.
“The heat doesn’t just affect me,” she added mortality “It increases mortality, but also increases diseases and illnesses associated with exposure to heat.”
For example, she said people who exercise outdoors are at increased risk. Businesses also face limited ability to operate outdoors.
The report’s co-authors also warned that climate change… Nutritional status unstable.
Because up to 48% of the world’s land area is exposed to conditions Dehydration Severe disease last year, researchers said that about 151 million new people will suffer from Food insecurity As a result, compared to the years 1981 to 2010.
Last year’s heavy rains also affected nearly 60% of the land, causing floods and raising the risk of water pollution or the spread of infectious diseases.
