Health Check What surpassing 1.5°C means for global health
Oct 29, 2025
In this insightful discussion, health journalist Layal Liverpool shares crucial findings from the Lancet report, detailing the dire health impacts of surpassing 1.5°C in global warming. Professor Lance Price uncovers a study linking contaminated meat to urinary tract infections, highlighting grocery contamination and its socioeconomic links. James Gallagher contextualizes a large analysis of antidepressants, aiming to tailor treatments by evaluating their side effects. They also explore how walking patterns can significantly affect heart health, emphasizing the benefits of longer, continuous walks.
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Climate Change As A Global Health Emergency
- The Lancet Countdown shows climate change is now a major and growing global health threat, with heat killing about one person per minute.
- The report links rising heat, wildfires, and air pollution to increasing deaths and urges urgent health-focused climate action.
Emission Cuts Deliver Immediate Health Gains
- Reduced coal burning has already saved about 160,000 lives per year, showing emissions cuts yield immediate health benefits.
- The Lancet report emphasizes adaptation and health finance as key complements to emission reductions.
Keep Cutting Emissions And Invest In Adaptation
- Keep striving to reduce emissions and invest in adaptation because temporarily surpassing 1.5°C doesn't negate all mitigation value.
- Treat climate change with the urgency of a health emergency and act on both mitigation and adaptation.