Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate

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By Zoya TeirsteinJan 30, 2024, 5:00 am151 pts
In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? McMichael’s research team…

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