If Earth gets sick, so do you

1024px-Anopheles_Funetus
James Gathany, Dr. Frank Collins, University of Notre Dame, USCDCP, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
Jack Marley
Year
2024
Published in
The Conversation

A hotter world is likely to be a sicker world.

Earth’s growing fever has obvious repercussions for human health, like heatwaves that are hotter than our physiology can tolerate. Humanity’s departure from the stable climate it inherited will yield surprises, too, though. Some of those may be existing diseases appearing in new places or spreading with greater ferocity. And some, experts fear, may be new diseases entirely.

Read the full article here.

Share This

Explore More On These Topics

We have built a world that is now pushing all life on Earth to its limits. The forces shaping our future on this planet are moving faster than we can comprehend, let alone take adequate action. By mapping the systems behind these forces, the MAHB cultivates the wisdom needed to respond.

About the MAHB →

You might like