#Heat #inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported #deaths in #poor countries’

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/16/heat-inequality-causing-thousands-of-unreported-deaths-in-poor-countries

“Heatwaves are the deadliest type of extreme #weather but they don’t leave a trail of destruction or striking images of devastation. They kill poor, lonely people in rich countries, and poor people working outdoors in developing countries,” said Otto, who is also a senior lecturer in #climate science at the Grantham Institute of Imperial College #London. “In the last 13 months, there will be thousands and thousands of stories of poor people dying in heat that will never be told.”

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Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’

Friederike Otto, of World Weather Attribution, says poor people and outdoor workers are dying around the world

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}