Dr. Farah Waseem has advocated for climate awareness since childhood. Now, it’s a matter of life and death for her patients in Pakistan.

floods, heat waves and air pollution, the last of which is worsened by both continued fossil fuel combustion and global warming driven by those fuels.

It’s not that simple though. More aerosol pollution means less climate warming. Phasing out fossil fuel combustion is necessary but not sufficient, and if humans were to stop burning hydrocarbons without addressing the other causes of climate change, it would actually make the problem worse.