Is insomnia related to the climate crisis?

How sleep affects general health is evidenced by many research.

A number of negative physical and mental conditions are directly linked to low or poor sleep. From heart health and diabetes to stress and the most predictable feeling of fatigue, sleep is a most important thing.

But even if you do everything you should do - do not eat late at night, avoid exposure to blue radiation just before bedtime, and do not drink coffee after 7: 00 p.m. - it is not always possible to sleep full of eight hours. It's kind of a climate crisis equation around here, as if we didn't have enough things to disrupt Morphe's sweet embrace.

People have lost an average of 44 hours of sleep each year in recent years because of rising temperatures, a result of the climate crisis, says a report in the magazine Smithsonan. The same research reports that things will get worse and that the loss of hours of sleep will reach 58 hours by the end of the century.

As in almost all crises, the climate does not affect all people equally, even in sleep. Research analysis shows that the warmer countries, the elderly and the lowest social standings are at greater risk.

The research used special armbands as intelligent watches that can monitor quality and amount of sleep in 68 different countries. The amount of time and concern required to sleep on a warm night is a completely reasonable thought and has disturbed us all, but when you look at how many hours have been wasted and the long - term effects this can have, it becomes really scary.