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Global Health Economics and
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Climate change and quality of life

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disruptions. Primarily, this exploratory empirical study Availability of data
affirms that the mortality rate indeed rises with increasing
emissions and pollution, and this is a cause for serious Data are available from the corresponding author upon
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