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Inequality causing 100,000 extra deaths a year from heat and cold in Europe
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Hanrahan slrpnk.net hanrahan@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-03-14
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Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/08/inequality-extra-deaths-heat-cold-europe-climate

Economic inequality adds more than 100,000 deaths to the vast toll from heat and cold in Europe each year, research has found.

Cutting levels inequality to match that of Europe’s most equal region, Slovenia, as measured by the Gini index, would reduce temperature-related mortality by as much as 30%, equating to 109,866 people, the study found.
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