By Catherine Clifford
The world is getting warmer, (click here) but the global response has “remained muted” despite efforts like the Paris Climate Agreement — and millions of lives are at risk as a result.
This according to a report published Wednesday by The Lancet, a leading peer-reviewed medical journal.
“This past year, we have seen the harms of our converging crises — COVID-19, climate disasters, and systemic racism; it’s been a preview of what lies ahead if we fail to urgently make the necessary investments to protect health,” Renee Salas, lead author of the U.S. Lancet Countdown Policy Brief, said in a statement published alongside the report.
Salas likened the kind of plan needed to what she does during her day job as an emergency room doctor.
“Just like in my emergency department, I can’t take one health problem and place it in isolation because one insult on the body creates new problems and worsens old ones,” Salas says. “We must take an integrated approach when tackling these challenges. Climate action is the prescription we need for better health and equity as we emerge from this pandemic.”...
The tragedy of Paradise, California was less about trees and more about wind and combustibility. It is interesting the number of trees still standing among the rubble. Healthy trees are often not effected by rapidly moving fire. The forest floor had very little to do with the tragedy in Paradise. That is all misinformation.
There were 86 people dead (click here) from the "Camp Fire" of which Paradise was a victim. The wind was the enemy. It carried embers miles. The climate crisis caused this tragedy. Nothing else did.
