While no one will escape the effects of climate change, its impacts “do not fall fairly” and require robust strategies to address health inequity, an ethicist told University of Minnesota researchers.
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We need to interrogate the possibility that the complex ecosystems on which we depend have a value that exceeds their human usefulness, writes Julian Sheather
It is incontrovertible that climate change and associated environmental degradation present serious threats to public health. Extreme heat, antimicrobial resistance, the zoonotic transfer of pathogens, shifting disease vectors, food and water instability, and desertification all are exacerbated by the climate emergency, all with serious implications for global public health. Take just one of these threats the likely impact of the climate emergency on emerging infectious diseases. A 2022 paper in Nature Climate Change 1 found that 58% (218 out of 375) of infectious diseases pathogenic in human beings have been aggravated by “climatic hazards” linked to global greenhouse gas emissions. By comparison, only 16% of diseases were “at times diminished” by the climate emergency.
In response, many health professionals and policy
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