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Read the passage given below and answer the questions by choosing the best/most appropriate options:
1. We face a public health emergency - and it isn't COVID-19. WHO has termed climate change as the single biggest health threat facing humanity. As our planet experiences global warming, manifest in rising temperatures, extreme weather and the loss of biodiversity, mirroring symptoms in human health are growing. The number of extremely hot days worldwide - when the temperature breaches 50°C - has doubled since the 1980s. Extreme heatwaves are thrice as common now and their health impacts are tremendous - searing heat sweeping across Canada and North America in 2021 claimed over 500 lives. The World Economic Forum estimates 2,50,000 annual losses of life worldwide from 2030, with intensifying exposure to heat, infectious diseases and malnutrition, climate change causing crop failures.
2. Importantly, climate change's health impacts are both extreme and everyday. Already, ten million precious lives are lost annually to air pollution, caused by the combustion of fossil fuels like coal and diesel, leading factors also of the global warming which ails Earth. As these fuels cause air quality decline, respiratory diseases, which impact 334 million people struggling with asthma worldwide, will grow, encompassing cardiovascular challenges too. Alongside, our planet's precarious health is showing in increased floods and droughts - these changes in precipitation drive a profusion of pathogen-carrying vectors of disease. As we humans plough through the forests and waterbodies these vectors would normally live in, we open more channels for these germs to reach us. Such impacts aren't just physiological - in 2020, over 51 million people, already struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, were impacted by 84 weather disasters. These climate shocks, which literally displace people from the Earth they stand on, are now driving mental health conditions worldwide.
3. But there are prescriptions for this malaise. Experts emphasise, these range from pivotal policy shifts - the sooner economies opt for renewable energy, the better for Earth and us - to personal changes like adopting a plant-based diet. We can mitigate climate impacts on health. There has never been a more pressing reminder that our bodies come from nature - by healing Earth, we heal ourselves.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions by choosing the best/most appropriate options:
1. We face a public health emergency - and it isn't COVID-19. WHO has termed climate change as the single biggest health threat facing humanity. As our planet experiences global warming, manifest in rising temperatures, extreme weather and the loss of biodiversity, mirroring symptoms in human health are growing. The number of extremely hot days worldwide - when the temperature breaches 50°C - has doubled since the 1980s. Extreme heatwaves are thrice as common now and their health impacts are tremendous - searing heat sweeping across Canada and North America in 2021 claimed over 500 lives. The World Economic Forum estimates 2,50,000 annual losses of life worldwide from 2030, with intensifying exposure to heat, infectious diseases and malnutrition, climate change causing crop failures.
2. Importantly, climate change's health impacts are both extreme and everyday. Already, ten million precious lives are lost annually to air pollution, caused by the combustion of fossil fuels like coal and diesel, leading factors also of the global warming which ails Earth. As these fuels cause air quality decline, respiratory diseases, which impact 334 million people struggling with asthma worldwide, will grow, encompassing cardiovascular challenges too. Alongside, our planet's precarious health is showing in increased floods and droughts - these changes in precipitation drive a profusion of pathogen-carrying vectors of disease. As we humans plough through the forests and waterbodies these vectors would normally live in, we open more channels for these germs to reach us. Such impacts aren't just physiological - in 2020, over 51 million people, already struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, were impacted by 84 weather disasters. These climate shocks, which literally displace people from the Earth they stand on, are now driving mental health conditions worldwide.
3. But there are prescriptions for this malaise. Experts emphasise, these range from pivotal policy shifts - the sooner economies opt for renewable energy, the better for Earth and us - to personal changes like adopting a plant-based diet. We can mitigate climate impacts on health. There has never been a more pressing reminder that our bodies come from nature - by healing Earth, we heal ourselves.
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