Heat-related deaths now exceed half a million a year, which means about one every minute.
People often just cannot cope with the heat stress caused by continued burning of fossil fuels, quite apart from the air pollution and increased likelihood of wildfires that result.
Governments pay out massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies ($2.5bn a day in 2023), often while spewing out drivel about the benefits of a ‘free market’. At the same time, hundreds of billions of hours of labour are lost because of the heat.
The responsibility for all this is down to capitalism and its motive of making a profit rather than caring for the environment and those who live within it.
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