Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate
Grist
JANUARY 30, 2024
McMichael’s research team tallied up how many lives had been lost to diarrheal disease, malnutrition, malaria, cardiovascular disease (a proxy for heat-related illness), and flooding, worldwide, in the year 2000. The researchers then used computer modeling to parse out the percentage of those deaths that were attributable to climate change.
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