Smoke envelops trees as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, burns in Doyle, Calif., on July 9, 2021.Doctors are taking aim at the fossil fuels industry, placing blame for the world’s most dire health problems on the companies that continue to seek oil and gas profits even as climate change worsens heat waves, intensifies flooding and roils people’s mental health.
“The report highlights the harm the fossil fuel industry has really wreaked in creating this crisis,” said Dr. Jerry Abraham, the director and chief vaccinologist at Kedren Community Health Center in Los Angeles, who was not involved in writing the report. “Foe is a harsh word, but it has to be used.”
Changes in temperature, precipitation and population since the 1950s have increased the transmissibility of diseases spread by mosquitoes, with dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika all up by roughly 12%. In the U.S., the transmissibility of dengue fever was about 64% higher. He worries that inequities will grow and that some people will be left behind as the U.S. invests in electrification and decarbonization.
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These aren’t medical professionals! Their grifters, trying to get some of that sweat sweat taxpayer $$$!
Too much atmospheric CO2 means the atmosphere absorbs more heat. It’s just simple physics.
Bull shit, gas lighting
I would never go to any doctor that agreed with this crap
Oh the impacts I think the Democrats in charge are the biggest impact on Americans right now, inflation 41-year high, gas through the roof, GDP dropping, market crashing border overrun, raising taxes, on and on, failure after failure.
Climate Change stressing out doctors........get real
The world is gonna get alot hotter but not for the reasons you think.
Could it be that we are on a rock spinning through space? Or can only politicians control it?