Category - Health threats

Extreme heat killed over 1300 Hajj pilgrims in 2024

The record-breaking human costs of climate change

Extreme heatwaves exceed forecasts, kill thousands

Ubiquitous plastic: A deadly threat to human health

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2024

Profiteering lets Mpox epidemic spread out of control

Extremely hot days double for half a billion children

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 8: Deadly Heat

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet markets

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 6: China’s Livestock Revolution

For wildlife, the next pandemic is already here

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2024

COVID wiped out 10 years of life expectancy gains

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 5: The Pandemic Machines

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2024

What are you eating?

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 4: Deforestation and Spillover

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 3: Systematically Unprepared

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 2: Relentless Viral Evolution

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 1: An Existential Threat

Global heating endangers US prisoners

Ecosocialist Bookshelf: February 2024

Worldwide, 1 in 12 hospitals won’t survive extreme weather

Fossil fuel air pollution causes 20% of all deaths

Amazon deforestation: A time bomb for new pandemics

Above 1.5°C, heat and humidity can be deadly for billions

Coverup: Industry hid dangers of ‘forever chemicals’

Climate change increases infectious diseases worldwide

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2023

Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2023