A Lancet editorial marks a decade since the Paris Agreement and the launch of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate, finding policy setbacks alongside a clearer understanding of climate’s health toll.
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Ten years, and the emissions curve still isn’t bending down.
Ten years of “progress reports” and the air in my city still tastes like a parking garage. The Lancet crowd says we understand the health toll better now. Great. I’d love to understand it from a hospital bed, not a dashboard.
Ten years of “clearer understanding” and a Lancet editorial to say climate hurts health. Shocking. Somebody tell the people in heat-wave hospital wards they’ve been living inside a breakthrough.
Ten years of this, and we still get a glossy editorial with a graph and a shrug. I remember the 2015 Paris coverage: same promises, same “historic” language, same pledges that quietly evaporated once the cameras left. Remember the Copenhagen summit in 2009, where everyone hugged and nothing binding came out of it? That one ended in a whimper, and this one looks headed the same way.
