{"id":6599,"date":"2019-11-15T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T08:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"climate-change-exposes-future-generations-to-life-long-health-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/15\/climate-change-exposes-future-generations-to-life-long-health-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Exposes Future Generations To Life-Long Health Harm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\nchild born today faces multiple and life-long health harms from climate change\n&#8211; growing up in a warmer world with risks of food shortages, infectious\ndiseases, floods and extreme heat, a major global study has found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate\nchange is already harming people&#8217;s health by increasing the number of extreme\nweather events and exacerbating air pollution, according to the study published\nin The Lancet medical journal. And if nothing is done to mitigate it, its\nimpacts could burden an entire generation with disease and illness throughout\ntheir lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Children\nare particularly vulnerable to the health risks of a changing climate. Their\nbodies and immune systems are still developing, leaving them more susceptible\nto disease and environmental pollutants,&#8221; said Nick Watts, who co-led The\nLancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\nwarned that health damage in early childhood is &#8220;persistent and\npervasive&#8221;, and carries lifelong consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Without\nimmediate action from all countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, gains in\nwellbeing and life expectancy will be compromised, and climate change will come\nto define the health of an entire generation,&#8221; he told a London briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet\nintroducing policies to limit emissions and cap global warming would see a\ndifferent outcome, the research teams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that scenario, a child born today would see an end to coal use in Britain, for example, by their 6th birthday, and the world reaching net-zero emissions by the time they were 31\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191113230113-imehu\/\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reuters A child born today faces multiple and life-long health harms from climate change &#8211; growing up in a warmer world with risks of food shortages, infectious diseases, floods&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}