Medical journals warn that the climate cannot wait for the end of the epidemic

World leaders must no longer delay “urgent” action in the fight against climate change and the destruction of nature. Public health at risk, leading medical journals warn in an unprecedented joint editorial.

“We, the health journal publishers, are asking governments and other officials to take action and ensure that 2021 is the year the world finally changed,” the editorial said. Others, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, or National Medical Journal of India.

With an average temperature increase of 1.1°C compared to pre-industrial levels, the impact of climate change on human health is already significant. Moreover, it affects more vulnerable groups.

The authors, whose calls have been published in 220 journals on medicine and health worldwide, say 1.5 degree global warming and continued biodiversity loss “threatens to cause catastrophic and irreversible damage to health.”

Despite “legitimate concern” about COVID-19, the world cannot wait until the end of the pandemic to cut greenhouse gas emissions, they argue ahead of the Glasgow climate conference in November.

The risks of climate change can outweigh the risks of any disease. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a statement that the pandemic will end, but there is no vaccine against the climate crisis.

“We, the health journal publishers, are asking governments and other officials to take action and ensure that 2021 is the year the world finally changed,” the editorial said. Others, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, or National Medical Journal of India. With an average temperature increase of 1.1°C compared to pre-industrial levels, the impact of climate change on human health is already significant. Moreover, it affects more vulnerable groups. The authors, whose calls have been published in 220 journals on medicine and health worldwide, say 1.5 degree global warming and continued biodiversity loss “threatens to cause catastrophic and irreversible damage to health.” Despite “legitimate concern” about COVID-19, the world cannot wait until the end of the pandemic to cut greenhouse gas emissions, they argue ahead of the Glasgow climate conference in November. The risks of climate change can outweigh the risks of any disease. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a statement that the pandemic will end, but there is no vaccine against the climate crisis.

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