Linkedin article highlights dire impact of climate change on health
Climate change is set to trigger food shortages, deadly disasters and disease outbreaks that would dwarf the toll of the coronavirus according to medical journal The Lancet.
In its annual “Countdown on health and climate change,” the Lancet provides a sombre assessment of the dangers posed by a warming planet. More than a dozen measures of humanity’s exposure to health-threatening weather extremes have climbed since last year’s report. Australian Rural Doctor and physician with Médecins Sans Frontières, Lachlan McIver said,
“If nothing else will drive the message home about the present threat that climate change poses to our global society, this should.”
