Climate change is making the world sick
- December 7, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Climate change is making the world sick
Subject :Environment
Section: Climate change
Context:
- The public health has been compromised by climate change in the form of heat stress, Lung damage from wildfire smoke, and the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes into new regions as temperatures rise.
Details:
- From 2030malnutrition, malaria and dengue, diarrhoea, and heat stress will push global death tolls up by 250,000 per year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
- The warmer temperatures and heavy rains create more hospitable conditions for disease-carrying mosquitoes to breed and spread to new regions.
- Malaria (a mosquito-born disease) spread into the highlands of Africa that previously had been too cold for mosquitoes.
- Diseases that are spreading fast due to warming and heavy rain are- Diarrhoea, Cholera, Malaria, dengue, Zika, and West Nile among others.
- The world is already about 1.1 degrees C warmer than the average pre-industrial temperature and people in 2022 experienced about 86 days on average of dangerously high temperatures that resulted in drier forests and extreme wildfires.
Source: The Hindu