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40. How Will We Handle the Heat?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Climate Change and Health Outcomes

As temperatures go up, the frequency of heat related illnesses will go up too. People die from heart attacks who would not have died without climate change. There's also growing research on mental health consequences of these events. And i specifically say outcomes, because one of the consequences is changing extremes being injured in flooding event that was made more extreme by climate change.

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