Younger people at greater risk of heat-related deaths this century | New research estimates a 32% increase in deaths of people under 35 if greenhouse gases not radically cut

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1. From the article: Extreme heat fueled by the climate crisis is often viewed as primarily a problem for vulnerable segments of the population, such as elderly people. But it is people aged under 35 that are set to suffer the brunt of heat-related deaths as temperatures climb, new research has suggested.

   While older people are susceptible to heatwaves, they currently make up the bulk of cold-related deaths. As the world heats up, it will be younger people that will suffer disproportionately as the mortality burden shifts, with the new study estimating a 32% increase in deaths of people under 35 years old this century from heat if greenhouse gases emissions aren’t radically cut.

   “Most discussion of vulnerability to heat focuses on the elderly, but we found a surprising source of inequality in that most heat mortality is in younger people,” said Andrew Wilson, a Columbia University researcher who led the study, [published](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq3367) in Science Advances, with a group of nine other scientists. “We didn’t think we’d find this.”

2. Micro plastics in every organ probably also is not helping things..

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