Global Warming Leads to 150,000 Deaths Every Yea

WHOとウィスコンシン大学によると、温暖化による感染症、自然災害により年間１５万人が死亡しており、２０３０年には２倍になることが予想されるとのこと。

Global warming is not only a threat to our future health, it already contributes to more than 150,000 deaths and 5 million illnesses annually, according to a team of health and climate scientists at the World Health Organization and the University of Wisconsin at Madison—and those numbers could double by 2030.

Research data published in the journal Nature show that global warming may affect human health in a surprising number of ways: speeding the spread of infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue fever; creating conditions that lead to potentially fatal malnutrition and diarrhea; and increasing the likelihood of heat waves and floods.