The Climate Crisis Is a Health Crisis: Escalating Climate Impacts Threaten Health Worldwide [Video]

Human-driven climate change is causing temperatures to rise to dangerous new heights, while worsening drought and impeding food security, according to the ninth Lancet Countdown report.

The report by health experts and doctors warned that people all over the world are facing unparalleled health threats because of the climate crisis.

“This year’s stocktake of the imminent health threats of climate inaction reveals the most concerning findings yet,” said Dr. Marina Romanello, executive director of the University College London-led Lancet Countdown, as The Guardian reported. “Once again, last year broke climate change records with extreme heatwaves, deadly weather events, and devastating wildfires affecting people around the world. No individual or economy on the planet is immune [to] the health threats of climate change.”

The report found that extreme droughts of one month or more in 2023 affected 48 percent of the land on Earth, with people having to cope with 50 …