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The climate crisis is also a human health crisis when attending the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the World Health Organization's Director-General's Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, Sputnik news agency reported. According to WHO's assessment, global warming is affecting the health of more than 3 billion people.
Globally, 1 in 4 deaths is due to preventable environmental problems;Every 4 seconds, 1 person dies due to environmental problems. "Climate change is exacerbating [health] risks. Kerry said.
Al Arabiya, a state-owned Arab television station, quoted Kerry as saying that a study showed that about 8 million people die from air pollution every year.
Experts point out that climate change creates the conditions for the spread of many diseases, and the spread of malaria, dengue fever, etc., is exacerbated by climate change. Sputnik news agency reported that Michael Adkunle Charles, head of the Geneva-based Roll Back Malaria Partnership in Switzerland, divided harsh climatic conditions into two types: "too much water" and "too little water". On the one hand, climate change is causing flooding in some areas, leading to "overwater" and creating a suitable environment for mosquitoes to breed, leading to an increase in malaria casesOn the other hand, "too little water" leads to droughts, creating famine and making malnourished people, especially children, more susceptible to disease.
Charles noted that climate change has an unstoppable impact on malaria transmission. Today, malaria has spread to the high mountain regions of Africa. According to the World Malaria Report 2023 recently released by the WHO, in 2022, there will be about 2There were 4.9 billion cases of malaria, 5 million more than in 2021 and 16 million more than the pre-pandemic level in 2019.
Kerry mentioned that before the 2022 floods in Pakistan, malaria was almost eradicated in some of the country's provinces. In the aftermath of the floods, malaria cases in the country surged to more than 1.6 million. In Malawi, severe storms caused by climate change have created the worst cholera outbreak in the country's history.
Sputnik news agency cites experts as warning that the threat posed by climate change could undo decades of progress in public health.
Over the next 10 years, we will see climate issues lead to increased morbidity for millions of people from noncommunicable diseases, mental illness, and more. Kerry pointed out that climate change threatens human life, and that reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone is no longer enough to deal with the current climate crisis, and that humanity must gradually move away from dependence on fossil fuels.
*: China Youth Daily client.