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posted on 2025-06-10, 04:27 authored by Wahhaj AhmedWahhaj Ahmed

Degrees that Matter is a short animated video inspired by the World Economic Forum’s report Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health. It visualizes a simple but devastating truth: every fraction of a degree rise in temperature is linked to thousands and millions of lives lost.

As the temperature ticks upward in the video, the death toll rises with it. And at some point, watching becomes unbearable. Turning off the video or pausing it offers no relief, because in reality, the numbers don’t stop. The despair is not cinematic. It’s real.

This video was created from a deeply personal place: the belief that even a 0.001°C reduction in warming could mean 6,000 lives saved. That is the weight and worth of our work. That is the meaning behind the degree and what we should all be striving for.

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