Guppi Bola, an expert in public health, climate justice, and decolonization economics, added: “As the pandemic has shown, by following existing patterns of structural marginalization, health crises are unevenly distributed across the globe.
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“The health gap exists because these results of poor health are both avoidable and unfair. It ultimately revolves around investment in public resources, exposure to environmental pollution and other (including climate change-related) hazards, and access to stability and adequate protection. Decent and green employment of equipment.
“Bioweathering (susceptibility to poor health due to persistent trauma) complicates health outcomes. Bioweathering is increasingly recognized as a driving factor for health inequality, as well as access to important public health services, clean air and water, and nutritious food. And sustainable work that meets ILO conventions, human rights, and occupational health and safety standards.”
Worldwide, the gap between the number of affordable housing and the number of people in need is widening.
By 2025, this gap is expected to affect more than one-third of the world’s urban population—for 1.6 billion people worldwide, this means living in insecure and overcrowded high-rise, informal slums or sleeping on the streets.
Extreme weather events have caused disproportionate losses to vulnerable residents and those forced to live in informal settlements where women, young people, LGBTQI+, the disabled, and the elderly face a higher risk of violence.
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A single storm can displace thousands of people and cause massive property damage, which can take decades to recover. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed 800,000 homes in New Orleans.
It is estimated that in 2019, Hurricane Idai destroyed 90% of Beira, a city with a population of over 500,000 in Mozambique.
Mozambique is the sixth poorest country in the world and is heavily indebted-but its coal and titanium ore and agro-industries have made investors around the world rich.
At the same time, the people of Mozambique are affected by this economic model. When the government seeks to repay its debts, social security expenditures decrease—especially when income from exported goods decreases.
In this neoliberal policy space, housing and other poverty alleviation work systematically takes precedence over (foreign) investor-friendly programs that concentrate wealth in the hands of a few people.
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Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert, organizer of Black Lives Matter UK and PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, pointed out: “Storms and epidemics cannot be easily avoided by themselves.
“But the scale of the damage caused, and whether the event becomes a disaster or a disaster, is based on the history of political decisions and decisions made in response to crises-rooted in ideological priorities that favor gentrification, foreign direct investment or Loans go beyond upgrading locals and local solutions-creating the context for events. Covid-19 has shown what many of us have already known.
“Economically marginalized people of color who are disproportionately exposed to higher levels of air pollution, poor housing conditions, health care deprivation or discrimination, and front-line or unstable jobs will be disproportionately exposed to health, climate or economic shocks Impact.
“This is true in the UK, and it is also true for the billions of people living in poverty in the south of the world. If the pandemic is a gateway-as Arundhati Roy suggests, it should be the gateway to what many of us have been working on. The gateway to that kind of world has been in our housing and land struggles, in our strikes, in our protests for generations.”
Therefore, the global just Green New Deal must include a vision of affordable, safe and dignified housing — designed to protect people from the effects of climate change that has already occurred — and provide decent housing throughout each person’s life. Work and social protection.
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Social protection includes universal access to health care and social care-the Covid-19 pandemic highlights its inelastic system in times of crisis.
For decades, allowing private companies to view people’s health as a business opportunity while reducing funding for public healthcare infrastructure has created a two-tiered global health system.
Although some people can rely on cutting-edge medical technology and expertise, many people cannot even use hospital beds. This inequality created by the system will be exacerbated by the collapse of the climate.
In fact, there is a deep connection between climate and well-being. On the one hand, climate change increases the likelihood and severity of future epidemics.
The intensified heat wave from France to Pakistan has had a disproportionate impact on the elderly and those with pre-existing heart and lung diseases.
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Climate change will also spread vector-borne diseases such as dengue fever, yellow fever, Zika virus and malaria, and increase premature deaths related to air pollution. Food and water shortages can cause health consequences related to malnutrition. Wildfire affects breathing.
In short, climate change is the number one threat to public health in this century. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a resilient and universally accessible healthcare infrastructure and services now more than ever.
The Global Green New Deal needs to cultivate public resources in the 21st century, not a privatized economy based on basic human needs.
This includes building a society that promotes lifelong learning, care, health, art, sports, and music as part of the overall well-being inspired by Buen Vivir-a social philosophy that inspires South American sports to reduce consumption and encourage cooperation to be fair in the community Allocate available resources instead of allowing the rich to accumulate forever.
This alternative to unsustainable growth at the top and scarcity at the bottom may be a rich choice for many people.
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Harpreet Kaur and Dalia Gebrail are curators and editors View Global Green New Deal, Where this article originally appeared.
