Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries
This article is co-published with ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.
New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human cost of the Trump administration’s approach to climate.
Increasing temperatures are already killing enormous numbers of people. A ProPublica and Guardian analysis that draws on sophisticated modeling by independent researchers found that Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda of expanding fossil fuels and decimating efforts to reduce emissions will add substantially to that toll, with the vast majority of deaths occurring outside the US.
Most of the people expected to die from soaring temperatures in the coming decades live in poor, hot countries in Africa and South Asia, according to recent research. Many of these countries emitted relatively little of the pollution that causes climate crisis – and are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat.
