Fossil fuels health risk

HARMFUL: EMISSIONS HAVE HUGE IMPACT ON PEOPLE'S LIVES - REPORT >>> Pollution linked to vast range of problems.

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The extraction, transportation and burning of planet-heating fossil fuels have a huge impact on people’s health that starts before they are born and lasts until they die, a report warned yesterday.

Pollution from fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas has been linked to a vast range of health problems, including miscarriages, asthma, cancer, strokes, heart disease and more.

“Fossil fuels are a direct assault on health, harming us at every stage of their lifecycle and every stage of our lives, from the womb to old age,” Shweta Narayan, the author of the new report from the Global Climate and Health Alliance, said in a statement.

The alliance, which includes more than 200 organisations representing 46 million health workers around the world, said the report was the first comprehensive global overview of how fossil fuels affect health across lifetimes.