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The wealthiest 1 per cent are responsible
Gore, T., ‘Confronting carbon inequality: putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery’, Oxfam International, 21 September 2020, https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/confronting-carbon-inequality. -
75 per cent of all new infectious diseases originate from wildlife
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, ‘Zoonotic diseases’, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 July 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html.‘We are creating the conditions in which epidemics flourish’
‘Trócaire, ‘5 lessons Dr. Mike Ryan says we need to learn from Covid-19’, 18 February 2021, https://www.trocaire.org/news/5-lessons-dr-mike-ryan-says-we-need-to-learn-from-covid-19/.37 per cent of heat-related deaths are caused by climate change
Vicedo-Cabrera, A. M., et al., ‘The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change’, Nature Climate Change, 11 (6), 2021: 492–500, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01058-x.roughly 10 million die each year from air pollution
Shindell, D., et al., ‘Temporal and spatial distribution of health, labor, and crop benefits of climate change mitigation in the United States’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (46), 2021: Article e2104061118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2104061118; Shindell, D., et al., ‘Quantified, localized health benefits of accelerated carbon dioxide emissions reductions’, Nature Climate Change, 8 (4), 2018: 291–5, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0108-y.malaria and dengue could put billions more at risk
Colón-González, F. J., et al., ‘Projecting the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in a warmer and more populated world: a multi-model, multi-scenario intercomparison modelling study’, Lancet Planetary Health, 5 (7), 2021: e404–e414, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00132-7; Caminade, C., et al., ‘Impact of climate change on global malaria distribution’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (9), 2014: 3286–91, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1302089111; Liu-Helmersson, J., et al., ‘Climate change may enable Aedes aegypti infestation in major European cities by 2100’, Environmental Research, 172, 2019: 693–9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.02.026.