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Taxonomy Archive: audio/video/movie clip
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Hidden Cost of Hamburgers
The Center for Investigative Reporting presents the hidden environmental costs of meat consumption and animal products. The video presents comparisons between transportation-related emissions and emissions associated with livestock, while making suggestions for individual and community level behavior change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?
This short video produced by the Global Climate and Health Alliance explains how climate change threatens human health and the perspective that this challenge is an opportunity to improve health and equity.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Epidemiologist: Climate Change Is A Health Crisis
Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem. If you ask Michael McGeehin, climate change is a health crisis. McGeehin is an epidemiologist who spent more than 30 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He developed the CDC’s Climate Change Program. McGeehin was recently in Miami for an international ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Diet-Climate Connection
The droughts, heat waves and wildfires of 2012 – the hottest year on record – have vividly brought home the effects of our warming planet. And some of the consequences will also show up at the grocery store. Foods we buy will cost more because of crop failures. And this is just part of a […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Webzine Video on Health and Climate
Climate change is above all a question of public health. Doctors are in the front-line in responding to the harm from climate turmoil. We have a privileged position and a moral duty to protect and promote the population’s health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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How climate change impacts health
The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2030, climate change will cause an extra 250,000 deaths per year.Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty says in the longer term, the numbers could be ‘infinitely worse’ caused less by the spread of infectious diseases, but by the health impacts of food insecurity and social ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Aaron Bernstein on Biological Diversity and Medicine
Plants, animals, and microbes have led to the development of treatments for many diseases including cancer, glaucoma, malaria, inflammatory disorders, high blood pressure, and many other disorders. The staggering loss of biodiversity today affects the ability of researchers to tap natural sources for medicine and exposes people to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Beating the Heat Preparing for Extreme Heat Events at the State and Local Level Webinar
Webinar going over CDC materials and toolkit, examples of heat wave preparation in Massachussets and New York.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Games for a New Climate
This is “Games for a New Climate” by Pardee Center. This video demonstrates how games speed up learning, dialogue and action on climate risks: they involve decisions with consequences, enabling players to inhabit the reality of climate-risk management and test possible future scenarios in a captivating and fun way.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict: full academic talk at USGS
Full academic talk at USGS about quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict