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Climate change fueling disasters, disease in ‘potentially irreversible’ ways, report warns – Chicago Tribune

‘…Heat waves are striking more people, disease-carrying mosquitoes are spreading and weather disasters are becoming more common, the authors note in the report published Monday by the British medical journal the Lancet. Climate change is a “threat multiplier,” they write, and its blows hit hardest in the most vulnerable communities, where people are suffering from poverty, water scarcity, inadequate housing or other crises.’

Source: Climate change fueling disasters, disease in ‘potentially irreversible’ ways, report warns – Chicago Tribune