The effects of climate change on people’s health are coming into alarming focus across the global south.
People are dangerously hungry in the Horn of Africa after a multiyear drought decimated crops and starved their animals. In Pakistan, unprecedented floods cut off people’s access to essential medicines. Malawi also suffered from floods that have unleashed a lengthy cholera outbreak in the country.
How to prevent these health crises — or the climate catastrophes that trigger them — is less clear.