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20 Apr 2018 |
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My view: Climate mitigation — just what the doctor ordered
“We incorporate climate change into all aspects of our health management.” With this emphatic statement, Royal DeLegge, Salt Lake County Health Department’s environmental health director, opened the “Climate Variability and Health Symposium” last month. This two-day event brought together over 110 experts and citizens ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Offline: Climate—“a common concern of humankind”
Scientists reacted to last weekend’s Paris Agreement on climate change with restrained optimism. The goal set out in the final document was strikingly clear—“holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to ...
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 […]