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- More than 3 billion people could potentially end up living in unbearable heat in the next 50 years, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America showed.
- While the worst-case scenario says 3 billion people may be impacted, the Associated Press reported that the more likely scenarios from the study show that at least one billion people will be affected.
- The number of people impacted depends on what action is taken to reduce carbon emissions.
- There are currently 20 million people impacted by extremely high temperatures.
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As many as half of the current world's population could be dealing with "unlivable heat" by 2070, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America showed.
In the next 50 years, somewhere between 1 to 3 billion people are expected to be inflicted with unbearable heat, according to the study. By 2070, that could be about a third of the overall global population at that time.
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