We are living in a climate emergency. Climate-related disasters have surged five-fold over the past 50 years, impacting our environments, health, and societal well-being. Let’s be clear: The climate crisis is a health crisis–and it’s killing us.
This year in the U.S., wildfires killed 97 people in Maui. Last year, floods submerged hundreds of villages in Pakistan, displacing at least 130,000 people and spreading diseases. The unrelenting drought that has devastated the Horn of Africa has left more than 20 million people facing acute food insecurity. Already, 7 million people die each year from air pollution, more than the global death toll during the entire COVID-19 pandemic.
