Why the Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis

Climate change is here, today, and it's threatening our lives. Whether through the direct danger of extreme weather - from floods, to heatwaves, to wildfires - the dangers of diseases and new pandemics, or the harms from climate change's causes: whether that's toxic air or unhealthy diets. So let's take a look at all the ways climate change harms our lives, what we can do to protect ourselves, and what we have to gain by halting global warming.

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==CHAPTERS==

0:00 Intro
0:59 COP Climate Conference Context
2:09 New Climate Health Report
2:54 Heatwaves
3:55 Too much and too little water
4:25 Diseases – old and new
5:24 Tropical storms & Hurricane Melissa
6:35 World on Fire
7:14 Toxic Air Pollution
8:20 Dangerous Diets
9:07 Losing Forest Protection
9:15 Climate And Unstable Societies
9:45 The Tangled Web
10:06 Protecting Ourselves
11:29 Halting Climate Change

==MORE INFO==

Lancet Countdown 2025 https://lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/
Wildfire air pollution study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl1252
Climate change and pandemics: https://www.carbonbrief.org/climate-change-is-creating-new-vulnerabilities-for-disease-pandemics/
Amnesty report on fossil fuel proximity https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-rights-critical-ecosystems-at-risk/
Every heatwave exacerbated https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220511-every-heatwave-enhanced-by-climate-change-experts

==CREDITS==

COP30 footage from CanalGov
Gaza and Hurricane Melissa footage from Kanal13
Hurricane Melissa footage from TropicalCycloneImagery
Global warming, hurricane and emissions footage from Nasa