“Our children will not survive” .. Experts warn of great risks to human health due to fossil fuels

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[size=52]“Our children will not survive” .. Experts warn of great risks to human health due to fossil fuels[/size]

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[size=45]International medical experts warned on Wednesday of significant risks to human health and the climate from the global dependence on fossil energy sources responsible for climate imbalances.[/size]
[size=45]Anthony Costello, university professor and co-chair of the annual "Lancet Countdown" study, which is conducted by 99 experts from 51 institutions, including the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization under the supervision of "University College" in London, said, "The world is standing at a turning point that we must change. . Otherwise, our children will face an acceleration of climate change that threatens their survival.”[/size]
[size=45]While countries and health systems are facing difficulties due to the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the analysis, which was issued a few days before the start of the United Nations climate conference “COP27” in the Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheikh, showed that the great majority of countries are still allocating hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidizing fossil fuels, These amounts equal or even exceed their health budgets.[/size]
[size=45]The study confirms that “excessive and continued dependence on fossil fuels is rapidly exacerbating climate change, and has serious implications for health.”[/size]
[size=45]Rising temperatures and extreme weather events, more likely due to climate change, leave nearly 100 million more people now facing severe food insecurity, compared to 1981-2010, according to Elizabeth Robinson, director of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, a research institute. One of the main contributors to the report.[/size]
[size=45]Meanwhile, heat-related deaths increased by 68% between 2017 and 2021 compared to 2000-2004, and human exposure to high-risk days in fires increased by 61% during similar periods.[/size]
[size=45]The report shows that climate change also affects the spread of infectious diseases. The odds of malaria transmission have increased by nearly a third, 32.1 percent in parts of the Americas, and by 14 percent in Africa over the past decade, compared to the period 1951-1960. Globally, the risk of malaria has increased by nearly a third. Dengue transmission increased by 12% during this period.[/size]
[size=45]United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres commented on the report's findings, saying, "The climate crisis is killing us. It harms not only the health of our planet, but also the health of all its inhabitants as addiction to fossil fuels escalates to uncontrollable levels.”[/size]
[size=45]Guterres called for investing in renewable energy and providing the requirements for resilience in the face of climate change.[/size]
[size=45]A year ago, the World Health Organization estimated that between 2030 and 2050 the world would witness about 250,000 additional deaths annually due to climate change.[/size]
[size=45]According to the study, countries themselves contribute to these health crises through fossil fuel subsidies, as 69 of the 86 governments analyzed subsidize fossil fuel production and consumption, with total net expenditures of $400 billion in 2019.[/size]
[size=45]As a result, “the carbon intensity of the global energy system (the sector that contributes most to greenhouse gas emissions), has decreased by less than 1% compared to 1992 and at the current rate, it would take 150 years to completely decarbonize our energy system,” according to the report.[/size]
[size=45]“The current strategies of many governments and companies will lock the world into a lethally freer future, linking us to the use of fossil fuels that is rapidly turning us away from the prospects of a livable world,” said Paul Akins, professor of resources and policy at Bartlett College at University College London.[/size]
[size=45]To overcome this, the report's authors called for a "health-centred response."[/size]
[size=45]Thus, improving air quality would prevent deaths from exposure to fossil fuels, which numbered 1.3 million in 2020 alone.[/size]
[size=45]Accelerating the transition to plant-based diets would reduce agricultural emissions by 55% and avert the world up to 11.5 million diet-related deaths annually.[/size]
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