Source: Nautilus Institute
Anthony McMichael from the Australian National University writes that "climate change belongs to a wider range of human-induced global environmental changes that are now assuming great and urgent importance. Collectively, these changes signify that human pressures are weakening and endangering the planet’s life support systems. Climate change will have many, and diverse, effects on human biological processes, risks of injury, and hence on health." McMichael discusses the adverse health impacts of climate change on those most likely to bear the greatest burden: low-income, poorly-resourced and geographically vulnerable populations.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Climate change in Australia: risks to human wellbeing and health
Posted by library@EPA at 11:53 AM
Labels: Climate change, Public health