A rapid transition to green energy sources would prevent a lot of disability and early death, researchers say.
In the year 2050 alone, the transition's impact amounts to 181 million future years of healthy human life, a new report found.
Add to that list 181 million years of healthy human life — annually.
Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ReutersDisability-adjusted life years, or DALYs, capture years of life affected by disability and years lost to premature death.
If the world rapidly transitions to renewables, they found, the energy system will still hurt human health enough in 2050 to lead to early death and disability that affects 30 million years of human life.
Persons:
Martin Meissner, it's, Stephanie Roe, WWF's, Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Nick Oxford, Dylan Martinez, Jonathan Buonocore, Buonocore, Lyu, Roe
Organizations:
Service, Wildlife Fund, Boston Consulting, Reuters, American Lung Association . Mines, Harvard, Boston University School of Public Health, WWF, China News Service, Getty, International Energy Agency, Stanford
Locations:
Haltern, Germany, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Texas, Fujian Province, China