The Grim Reaper: The BMJ urged the World Health Organisation this week to declare climate change a public health emergency. “Deaths from Ebola infection, tragic and frightening though they are, will pale into insignificance when compared with the mayhem we we can expect for our children and grandchildren if the world does nothing to check its carbon emissions,” wrote BMJ editor Fiona Godlee in the editorial. Earlier this week, the BMJ published a paper intended to educate doctors on the basic science of climate change, in an effort to prepare them to treat the worsening conflagration of conditions and diseases that will become far more common in a warmer world. The new dilemmas that don’t kill us will still, in many cases, make daily life more uncomfortable, whether we are contending with a longer allergy season, foods that are suddenly out of reach, or a host of environmental catastrophes. But some of the most memorable effects of climate change will be the most personal, those that change not only how we live but how we die. These are some of the most surprising health challenges we’ll face. businessinsider.au/how-climate-change-will-lead-to-death-2014-10
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:39:33 +0000
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