This week on Zero, reporter Akshat Rathi sits down with Renee Salas, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a leading expert on the health impacts of global warming. The intersection of health and climate change is a growing area of research, and an increasingly urgent one: Heat deaths among seniors, for example, are projected to increase 370% by mid-century.  But even the young and relatively healthy are at risk. “The take-home I want everyone to go away with is that we all are at risk for this,” Salas says, “especially as we get into more and more extreme conditions.”

Explore further:
Past episode with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about how higher temperatures results in “global weirding”
Past episode with John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: A True Story from A Hotter World
Past episode with Eleni Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer at UN-Habitat about designing cities to face extreme heat

Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Matthew Griffin, and Jessica Beck. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.

This week on Zero, reporter Akshat Rathi sits down with Renee Salas, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a leading expert on the health impacts of global warming. The intersection of health and climate change is a growing area of research, and an increasingly urgent one: Heat deaths among seniors, for example, are projected to increase 370% by mid-century.  But even the young and relatively healthy are at risk. “The take-home I want everyone to go away with is that we all are at risk for this,” Salas says, “especially as we get into more and more extreme conditions.”
Explore further:
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<li aria-level="1">Past episode <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/f1721369-793e-43fd-8754-b18f0127ecbf">with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about how higher temperatures results in “global weirding”</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode with <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/6c511d5f-ccc9-4570-b8bd-b18d00ef759f">John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: A True Story from A Hotter World</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Past episode with Eleni Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer at UN-Habitat <a href="https://omnystudio.com/p/zero/clips/81b3af99-2c56-47d8-b0a1-b00300b1395f">about designing cities to face extreme heat</a></li>
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Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Matthew Griffin, and Jessica Beck. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/green">https://www.bloomberg.com/green</a>.

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Healthy? Extreme heat could still threaten your life

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/21381f2b-a997-48da-8619-b1cc0120b28c/transcript

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