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Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are

Rising temperatures are a threat regardless of where you live on the planet—they’re just dangerous in different ways.

Heat exposure lowers labor productivity, which undermines many people's incomes and in turn their ability to sustain good mental and physical health. Europe, for example, is warming rapidly, and because it has a large elderly population and a high incidence of non-communicable diseases, it has the highest rate of death from extreme heat in the world. But data is rarely reported that’s disaggregated by socio-economic status, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, so we still have enormous gaps in understanding how the really vulnerable in a given country are being harmed.

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