Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.
It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.
The report, the most comprehensive to date, says the damage to health will get worse with leaders such as Donald Trump ripping up climate policies and oil companies continuing to exploit new reserves.
Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies in 2023, the researchers found, while people lost about the same amount because of high temperatures preventing them from working on farms and building sites.
Unfortunately 1 person per minute won’t be enough to tackle climate change.
A very quick and probably not terribly accurate number for how many people are born per minute is 250 people born per minute. So until it reaches 250 people dead per minute, I don’t think anybody is going to sell me on that statistic
It’s about to be come this weekend, if not already.
Oh it’s way more than one person a second.
It isn’t?
The deaths of all humanity are just 1.8 per second.
Bono’s gonna come onstage snapping his bleedin’ fingers again.
