Children are expected to face disproportionate increases in lifetime extreme event exposure–especially in low-income countries. Under current climate policy, worldwide newborns will on average face seven times more scorching heatwaves during their lives than their grandparents. They’ll on average live through 2.6 times more droughts, 2.8 times as many river floods, almost three times as many crop failures, and twice the number of wildfires as people born 60 years ago.
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