The Lancet Countdown’ report on human body and mind disaster

The climate crisis is no longer ecological: The Lancet report and the balance of biodiversity

The ‘Countdown 2025’ report from ‘The Lancet’ highlights that climate change is a direct threat to human health—physically, mentally, and socially—not just an environmental concern for the future.

Vector-borne diseases are threatening livelihoods worldwide, causing around 550,000 deaths annually over the last decade, a 3% increase since the 1990s. In addition, heat-induced stress or ‘heat stress’ is causing lost productivity of around 1% of global GDP.

Mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue, are now spreading even in once-temperate regions. These images make it clear that the climate crisis is going beyond the stable physiological limits of the human body.

The Lancet report also criticized global dependence on fossil fuels. It said global fossil fuel subsidies (about $956 billion) now exceed the total global public health budget.

This imbalance highlights that the global economy is still dependent on access to energy, not on integrated risk prevention. Scientists and health experts are urging policy reforms and an end to fossil fuel subsidies, emphasizing the link between climate change and public health