A new global report counts up the losses from heatwaves.
medical journal. More people are dying during brutal heat spells. Scorching temperatures are also causing people to lose work.raise the risk of heat illness and chip away at people’s livelihoods. Some groups of people are more vulnerable because of their age, employment, and housing, as well as a legacy of discriminatory policies that have stacked the cards against them.
Heat-related deaths globally rose 68 percent in the period between 2017 and 2021 compared to 2000–2004 among people older than 65, according to the. Over the same time period, heat-related deaths for adults above 65 years old rose 74 percent. On average, older adults in America each lived through three more heatwave days a year between 2012 and 2021 than they did between 1986 and 2005.
“When we think of climate change and we think of the populations that bear the highest burden — those being older adults and children,
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