Climate change is an unprecedented threat to human civilization as we know it. The large number of diseases that are sensitive to climate change and their numerous transmission pathways represent an insurmountable task for disease control in the absence of aggressive mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Arguably, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed substantial disparities in disease outbreak preparedness globally, and further emphasizes that humanity is currently unable to prepare for the onslaught of multiple coinciding disease outbreaks that are worsened by climatic hazards.
The large body of evidence for numerous climate-change-aggravated diseases, case examples and transmission pathways demonstrates that the consequences of continuing under the ‘business as usual’ scenario will result in grave outcomes for human health.
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