🌍 We must stop fossil fuels to save lives!
The climate crisis is already killing one person every minute, a new global report by the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals. Here are some key findings:
- our dependence on fossil fuels is costing millions of lives every year, from deadly heatwaves and toxic air pollution to wildfires and hunger.
- meanwhile, governments are still handing fossil fuel companies billions in subsidies every single day.
- reducing the use of fossil fuels and switching to renewables can save lives. Reduced coal burning has saved about 400 lives a day in the last decade, the report says.
Fossil gas, coal and oil are not safe. They fuel heat, disease and destruction. But there is another path. By ending fossil fuel investments now and moving to renewables, we can protect our families, our health and our future.
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