This week saw the release of two major reports on the health effects of climate changeone from the National Climate Assessment and one from the Lancet Countdown.
NPR's Alejandra Borunda says both reports "really hammered home that climate change is hurting people physically and mentally," and that health risks are only going to get worse.
"The most obvious is heat," she says.
"Climate change, we know, is making heat waves hotter and last longer.
And doctorsthey know that, during heat waves, the number of heart attacks and strokes and all kinds of other health problems go way up."
Other health risks include wildfires, flooding, and diseases like Lyme, which is spreading because the insects that carry them are thriving further north.
Borunda says the US spends $1 billion a year on climate-related health costs, and that's only going to get worse.
"So climate change is hurting people who work outside," she says.
"It also hurts people who live in historically redlined neighborhoods, where there's less tree shade, so it can be 15 degrees hotter than just a few blocks away.
People living therethey're already living in the climate change future."
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