How Global Warming Negatively Affects Your Health and Life Expectancy
Over 400,000 people worldwide die every year from climate change. Most of those deaths are from hunger and communicable diseases, but this figure also includes those who die from wildfires, heat waves, and other natural disasters attributed to the changing climates. We also can’t forget carbon emissions, where the detrimental impact on human health doesn’t lead to death the next day, but there’s no doubt that breathing in smog over years and years isn’t healthy. This video below showcases how global warming has negatively affected health and life expectancy in Australia. Surprisingly, what this video doesn’t discuss is the impact of climate change on disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes and ticks. The public health risks associated with climate change aren’t a prediction for the future, they are a reality of today, a current cost of carbon.
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