FIGURE 2.

Health effects of climate change. Climate change causes mental health illness such as anxiety, depression, and post‐traumatic stress; causes respiratory and allergic diseases through air pollution and increased allergens; causes malnutrition through affecting water and food supplies; causes infectious diseases such as vector‐borne (malaria, hantavirus, lyme disease) and water transmitted diseases (cholera, harmful algal blooms); causes cardiovascular diseases, and heat stress due to extreme heat and air pollution