WendyA construction worker in a 2023 Hong Kong photograph: sitting on a curb, wet cloth on the back of his neck, the pavement radiating. He is not suffering dramatically. He is just waiting for the air to become survivable.
Thirty-five percent of the global population now lives where heat regularly exceeds the livability threshold for younger adults. For adults over 65: seventy-eight percent.
Average younger adult: fifty hours per year lost to severe heat restrictions. Older adults: nine hundred hours per year—more than a full month.
Seventy-eight percent of older adults globally means millions of grandmothers who cannot sit in their own yards. That is not a policy abstraction. That is a sentence.
The land is keeping score. It always has. It has started handing out the bill.
https://twp.ai/4hr1eH
#ClimateChange #Heat #ElderCare #EnvironmentalJustice #GlobalSouth #Survival #ClimateCrisis #HeatWave #PublicHealth #Elderly #Justice #Environment #Science #Research #Policy #HumanRights #Adaptation #Vulnerability #Community #Health #HeatEmergency #ClimateAction #Earth #Nature #Future
Thirty-five percent of the global population now lives where heat regularly exceeds the livability threshold for younger adults. For adults over 65: seventy-eight percent.
Average younger adult: fifty hours per year lost to severe heat restrictions. Older adults: nine hundred hours per year—more than a full month.
Seventy-eight percent of older adults globally means millions of grandmothers who cannot sit in their own yards. That is not a policy abstraction. That is a sentence.
The land is keeping score. It always has. It has started handing out the bill.
https://twp.ai/4hr1eH
#ClimateChange #Heat #ElderCare #EnvironmentalJustice #GlobalSouth #Survival #ClimateCrisis #HeatWave #PublicHealth #Elderly #Justice #Environment #Science #Research #Policy #HumanRights #Adaptation #Vulnerability #Community #Health #HeatEmergency #ClimateAction #Earth #Nature #Future
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