Global health at mercy of fossil fuel addiction, warn scientists

Dead Rio Grande silvery minnows on the parched riverbed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stretches of the river went dry for the first time in 40 years in August. Photograph: Brittany Peterson/AP

The health of the world’s people is at the mercy of a global addiction to fossil fuels, according to a study.

The analysis reports an increase in heat deaths, hunger and infectious disease as the climate crisis intensifies, while governments continue to give more in subsidies to fossil fuels than to the poorer countries experiencing the impacts of global heating.