Forest fires, high temperatures and flooding are all impacts of climate change that affect our health.
Recently, over 200 medical journals recently called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global health emergency due to climate change and biodiversity loss.
The article requests the WHO treat these two issues as one, and not address them separately, as the impacts are very intermingled and that “[o]nly by considering climate and biodiversity as parts of the same complex problem … can solutions be developed that avoid maladaptation and maximize the beneficial outcomes.”
You can read the full article here.