Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It

Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It by Paul R. Epstein MD (Author), Dan Ferber (Author), Jeffrey Sachs (Foreword). Local weather change is now doing much more hurt than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice--it is damaging the health of individuals around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real individuals with chopping-edge scientific and medical information, Altering Planet, Changing Well being brings us to places like Mozambique, Honduras, and the United States for an eye fixed-opening on-the-floor investigation of how climate change is altering patterns of disease. Written by a doctor and world skilled on climate and well being and an award-profitable science journalist, the book reveals the shocking hyperlinks between global warming and cholera, malaria, Lyme illness, bronchial asthma, and other well being threats. In clear, accessible language, it also discusses topics including Climategate, cap-and-commerce proposals, and the connection between free markets and the climate crisis. Most importantly, Changing Planet, Changing Well being delivers a collection of innovative solutions for shaping a wholesome international financial order in the twenty-first century.

What a revelatory guide this was. I knew about some of the methods through which climate change threatens human health and safety, however had no idea of the breadth and scope of these risks, or of the ways in which some are interconnected. Epstein and Ferber paint an impressively--if frighteningly--detailed image of the well being menace that our planet's inarguably changing local weather poses. And by some means they rework this dauntingly complex materials into one thing that may be a pleasure to read, with the tangible human dimensions of the issues (and some solutions) evident on nearly every web page, from a Kenyan mother's determined fight to rescue her deathly in poor health daughter from malaria contracted in a region as soon as deemed "malaria-free," to the every day grind of a graduate pupil whose work in a Midwestern experimental soybean discipline aims to deal with the question of whether and how, within the face of increasing CO2 levels, we can grow sufficient food to feed the planet. But Epstein and Ferber don't just current issues after which depart us with the miserable sense that we have long since handed our probability for redemption. Though they're clear that fashionable desires and needs have brought us to a harmful precipice ("Again and again, we wish too much, waste an excessive amount of, and fail to think about the results," they write), additionally they propose thought-scary options which I solely hope will capture both the general public's and the coverage makers' critical attention.

I just ordered this e book after studying a very great overview of it in Nature journal, where the reviewer concluded by writing: "We urgently want to comprehend that the dangers to human well being and populations can be nice if local weather change continues on its current trajectory. Because human health is 'the bottom line' at which the numerous adversarial consequences of local weather change will converge, "Altering Planet, Changing Well being" is an excellent corrective for local weather-change myopia." 

Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It

Paul R. Epstein MD (Author), Dan Ferber (Author), Jeffrey Sachs (Foreword)

368 pages

University of California Press; First Edition first Printing edition (April 4, 2011)

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