Climate Change Is Making Us Sick
Beyond a blink-and-you-miss-it mention in the preamble, the declaration that emerged from the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference makes no substantive mention of the link between climate change and human health. This is a glaring omission.
SAN DIEGO – A day before the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) began, a group of global experts convened by The Lancet published a report about the adverse health effects of climate change. Their conclusion was as jarring as it was straightforward: human health is at the mercy of fossil fuels.