Temperature-related deaths could hit minority communities the hardest.
Omar, a person experiencing homelessness, splashes his face with water from a bucket filled by an open fire hydrant as southern California faces a heatwave, Sept. 4, 2024, in Los Angeles.continues to rise, lives could be at stake. A new study found deaths related to extreme temperatures may triple by the middle of the century, hitting minority communities the hardest.
A road worker drinks water on a construction site as southern California is facing a heatwave, Sept. 4, 2023, in Los Angeles."The lower emissions scenario represents what we think might happen to the greenhouse gas emission trajectory if currently proposed climate policies are enacted,", MD, the study's lead author and assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, said.
"It's critical to understand that a warming planet is dangerous to all of us. But climate change and heat-related impacts on health are very disproportionate and very inequitably distributed," Basu said.Matthew Hatcher/AFP via Getty Imagesstems from projected population shifts. Minority and non-White populations are expected to grow faster than white populations.
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