The threats to human health are multiplying and intensifying due to climate change, and unless we change course, our health care systems are at risk of being overwhelmed in the future.
—Ian Hamilton, executive director of the Lancet Countdown
No country—rich or poor—is immune from the health effects of worsening climate change. Unless we take urgent action, climate change will increasingly threaten global health, disrupt lives and livelihoods, and overwhelm health care systems, according to the 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published in The Lancet.
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