COVID-19 recovery poses dire climate, health risks: Lancet

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PARIS: Countries\u0027 fossil-fuel powered COVID-19 recoveries will have long-lasting consequences on human health and risk worsening food and water insecurity, heatwaves and infectious diseases already threatening billions globally, a major assessment warned on Thursday (Oct 21). The Lancet Countdown is t

PARIS: Countries' fossil-fuel powered COVID-19 recoveries will have long-lasting consequences on human health and risk worsening food and water insecurity, heatwaves and infectious diseases already threatening billions globally, a major assessment warned on Thursday .It found that up to 19 per cent of Earth's land mass was affected by extreme drought in 2020 and warned that climate change posed a major threat to food security, which already affects more than 2 billion people.

And climate change is creating ideal conditions for infectious diseases such as dengue fever, Zika virus, cholera and malaria across a far larger span of the globe than just a few decades ago and including Europe, it said. The Lancet said that yield potential for maize - a global staple - had already declined 6 per cent compared with 1981-2010 levels.

"This year we saw people suffering intense heatwaves, deadly floods and wildfires," said lead author Maria Romanello.

 

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