Like health clobbering child climate

Suppose you needed to achieve the main objective consensus of 195 nations that have signed actually take 2016 Paris Air Accord all the steps: to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels. It would be in this world, all children born today grow up to experience up to a few lucky milestones. If you have lived in the UK, would have their country phase out the use of coal for the time being in office, they turned six. If has lived in France, with the petrol car would eliminate, for their 21st birthday. And like all 195 countries to achieve their individual goals in a similar way, all children born today would be 31 when the World net zero the greenhouse gas emissions achieved. But in the real world, the US has already withdrawn the Paris agreement, other nations observe only spottily, continue to be global temperatures rise and the health of children will be beaten in the process. In a large study published in The Lancet, researchers from 35 institutions, including the World Health Organization, the Imperial College London, the University of York, Yale University and Iran University of Medical Sciences examines the climatological health of the planet on 41 indices such as increasing the frequency of floods, fires and mosquito transmitted diseases; , Adaptation and mitigation of the problems have been taken; and economic resources are dedicated to this work. They found that, while progress is to be made to continue to show too many trends downward. We will pay a price for everything, but children today pay the highest. “With every degree of warming, born today we make a baby into a future in which their health and well-being are increasingly threatened,” says Dr. Renee Salas Harvard University Global Health Institute, soon the author of the Lancet policy accompanying the study. “Climate change and air pollution from fossil fuels, are driving health threatening a child leaving his mother’s womb and accumulate only from there.” One of the most harmful examples of this cumulative phenomenon is microscopic particles produced by the combustion of fossil fuels matter. The study found that over 90% of the 2.2 billion children in the world, defined by particles in concentrations above the safe limit by the World Health Organization is exposed. To draw his first breath in a world like that makes a longer duration of asthma risk in developing pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. And while the air cleaner media in rich countries like the United States than it was 50 years ago, the world as a whole is becoming urbanized, expected to live exactly 70% of the world population in cities by 2050 in which the dirtiest air. Who should be for 2019 Person of the Year? Your vote in the poll of readers. Rising temperatures, the main indicator of climate change do to their own brand of damage children. The children’s bodies are less able than adults with temperature control and children rely on healthcare professionals to heat and remove them water when the temperature increases. This is explained, the study leaves them significantly greater risk of heat-related electrolyte imbalance, high fever and kidney and respiratory diseases. In this case, the geography is a force multiplier. While the average global temperature has increased by 0.2 ° C compared to a baseline from 1983 to 2005, the average heat in large cities and other urban centers, where most people live, what researchers weighted population temperature it is increased by 0.8 ° C call. And in heißesten places a great hedge against heat ACU is often not available. In the United States and Japan, for example, 90% of the apartments have air conditioning. In India it is 4%. Even worse, while 19% and 13% of the US population and Japan in Group 0-to-14 years each, fully 35% of the 1.3 billion population of India is 14 or younger. This means that nearly 450 million children overheated in a country where the-record high temperatures, tens of thousands of people caused to their homes last summer to escape and led to nearly 200 deaths in the first half of June alone, just the type of heat problems to the forefront the Paris agreements are designed address. Infant feeding also suffers. increase to reduce the temperature increase of the length of growing season for corn three key points, rice and spring wheat crops Chop and the risk of famine in developing countries most vulnerable developing countries. cause at the same time, the rise in sea temperatures in a decline of fish stocks, a source of 20% of the protein in the diet of 3.2 billion people. “All over the world, mostly children suffering from malnutrition,” says Salas, “and a series of health problems such as slower growth in the uterus, the crippled development suffer and the lack of critical micronutrients.” Finally, there are diseases that thrive in a world warming. Most worrying examined in the Lancet study are malaria and dengue fever, which in turn takes time for children. The researchers found that both diseases are on the rise, more or less in line with the climate. The incidence of dengue fever in particular, is already as much as 9.8% higher than the pre-2012 baseline. Climate change is hitting a perverse egalitarian plague, no one spared, everyone. But the special toll on children becomes perversely cruel. In a world that presumably the Justice prices, is unfair in the extreme for people who suffer the least responsible for causing this problem, most of it are. The longtime Paris agreement offers instead ignored a way out
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