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20 Apr 2018 |
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The Impact of Climate Change on Health and Equity
Tackling the daunting health effects of climate change requires community leaders from all sectors to work together to meet the needs of everyone, especially the most vulnerable.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy oceans, healthy people
A groundbreaking study released in the journal Nature last week underscored something many of us have long known to be true: around the world, human health is inextricably linked to the health of the oceans. When the oceans suffer – from threats like climate change and overfishing – people suffer too.This new study shows that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The perfect storm: climate change and its health consequences
March 30 saw the launch of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change—a coalition of major UK health institutions and The Lancet, who have come together to raise awareness in the UK of the health risks posed by climate change. We are united by a shared understanding that climate change threatens the wellbeing of the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Obama’s Clean Power Plan: a breath of fresh air
“An unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human health” was how a 2015 Commission published by The Lancet described the risks posed by climate change. With this in mind, the Clean Power Plan, unveiled by President Barack Obama and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Aug 3, should be welcomed with open ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Oakland rejects coal terminal, sets example on climate change
Two weeks ago, the Oakland City Council unanimously voted to ban the handling and storage of coal in the city, quashing a proposal to build what could have been the largest coal export facility in California.It was a remarkable display of leadership and foresight: Council members put the health and safety of their residents above ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Naomi Klein on the racism that underlies climate change inaction
In recent months, the world’s gaze has landed again and again on a hellish Australian terrain of climate-related disaster. Bushfires ravage some of the planet’s oldest trees in Tasmania. Catastrophic coral bleaching leaves much of the Great Barrier Reef a ghostly white. The first known mammal to be wiped out by global warming was ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Climate Crisis Is Also A Health Crisis
Climate change effects extend far beyond the very real and urgent crisis faced by California communities that are running out of water (“Climate Issues Moved to Fore in California by Governor,” news article, May 20).Millions of Californians now rely on groundwater contaminated by agricultural runoff and industrial chemicals. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Let’s limit carbon emissions
On June 23, the U.S. Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, told health leaders gathered at the White House Summit on Climate Change and Health that climate change poses a “serious, immediate and global threat to human health,” urging that it is “well past time” to take action. Recent evidence makes it clear that […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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How to Deliver the Most Important Public Health Treaty of the Century
According to the recently published 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, the effects of global warming are set to undermine much of the global public health gains from the past century.1 But the message of the Lancet Commission is also hopeful, highlighting the leadership role that health professionals can play in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate
It has been proposed that changes in global climate have been responsible for episodes of widespread violence and even the collapse of civilizations. Yet previous studies have not shown that violence can be attributed to the global climate, only that random weather events might be correlated with conflict in some cases. Here we ...