Four ways climate change and population growth combine to threaten public health, with global consequences | Opinion

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Of the multitude of climate-related adverse health effects, these four represent the greatest public health concerns for a growing population.

There are questions that worry me profoundly as a population- and environmental-health scientist.

Will we have enough food for a growing global population? How will we take care of more people in the next pandemic? What will heat do to millions with hypertension? Will countries wage water wars because of increasing droughts? These risks all have three things in common: health, climate change and a growing population that the40-year career

, first working in the Amazon rainforest and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and then in academia, I have encountered many public health threats, but none so intransigent and pervasive as climate change. Of the multitude of climate-related adverse health effects, the following four represent the greatest public health concerns for a growing population.Flooding, for example, can affect water quality and the habitats where dangerous bacteria and vectors like mosquitoes can breed and transmit infectious diseases to people.

 

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Just stop with your climate change sham

JoeBiden paying other countries who pollute the environment to incentivize them to change their ways with no accountability.

Looks to me like Asia is the problem. Why are American taxpayers forced to support them?

Climate always changes and population growth is down from prevoius years. Swing and a miss!

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