David JoffeJan 27, 2023
Simon Evans

People in the UK will collectively gain millions of life-years if we reach net-zero emissions

Cumulative gains by 2050

+800,000 cosier homes
+736,000 cleaner fuels
+400,000 healthier diets
+125,000 active travel

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-the-uks-push-to-reach-net-zero-could-deliver-key-health-benefits/

Guest post: How the UK’s push to reach net-zero could deliver key health benefits - Carbon Brief

The IPCC's most recent assessment of climate impacts concluded that global warming “has adversely affected physical health of people globally”.

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Show threadAlbert CardonaJan 27, 2023
@drsimevans And we’d better reach zero or negative emissions soon. With the documented detrimental effect of high CO2 levels on cognitive ability, further increases risk putting us all under a predicament not unlike that of Detritus in Ankh-Morpork (see: Terry Pratchett’s “Men at arms” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_at_Arms ).
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