As the world struggles with the global Covid 19 pandemic, global warming is already having significant repercussions on human health, so it cannot be halted to implement urgent action on climate change.
“Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world,” ran an editorial written by the editors in charge of more than a dozen journals including the Lancet, East African Medical Journal, Brazil’s Revista de Saude Publica, and the International Nursing Review in the run-up to the Cop26 climate summit in November.
Temperatures have gone up 1.1 degrees Celsius since the pre-industrial era.
The editorial, which has been written by the editors of more than a decade-long journals such as Lancet, East African Medical Journal, Revista de Saude Publica and International Nursing Review, suggests that this has caused a plethora of health problems.
In current conditions, according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming could reach + 1.5 ° C at preindustrial levels by 2030, which does not take account of current global warming patterns.
“The risks posed by climate change could dwarf those of any single disease.”Tedros Adhanom
Preliminary to the editorial’s publication, World Health Organization Chief Executive Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “The risks posed by climate change could dwarf those of any single disease.”
They warned that this impact, which has the greatest impact on the most vulnerable like minorities, children and poor communities, is only the start.
