LIVE: Harvard Researcher Says Rising CO2 Levels Put Millions At Risk of Protein Deficiency
Friday, September 08, 2017
According to findings from a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study 18 countries may lose more than five percent of their dietary protein by 2050 if CO2 continues to rise as projected.
Samuel Myers, the Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Environmental Health, co-authored the study that was published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
“What we found was around 150 million people in the world would get pushed into protein deficiency as a result of this CO2 effect, in addition to hundreds of millions of people who are already suffering from protein deficiency who would experience exacerbation of that health problem,” Myers says.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTMyers, who serves as the Director of Planetary Health Alliance, says their research also shows a rise in iron and zinc deficiency related to CO2 emission.
“One of the really fascinating things and scary things about this research is it highlights an issue of equity,” Myers says, “the people at risk tend to be vegetarians, low-income countries, and future generations. There is this issue of inter-generational equity that we’re putting other people in future generations at risk through our own consumption practices today.”
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