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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClimate Change Will Make Us Sicker And Make Our Food Less Nutritious
Climate Change Will Make Us Sicker And Make Our Food Less Nutritiousby Kate Sheppard at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-public-health-effects_us_5702a379e4b0a06d5806444f?utm_hp_ref=politics
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The report notes, for example, that climate change is likely to compromise the food we eat, with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere bringing down the nutritional value of crops like wheat and rice. Meanwhile, temperature and weather changes could increase the risk of foodborne illnesses like salmonella and norovirus.
The report also projects that by 2030, extreme heat during the summer months could cause the yearly number of premature deaths in the U.S. to climb 11,000 higher than the number measured in 1990. By 2100, the report says, that number could rise as many as 27,000 premature deaths higher than the 1990 figure.
Allergies and asthma already affect many Americans, but warmer temperatures, longer pollen seasons and air pollution can make those issues much worse. The research also found that ragweed pollen season has already grown longer in the U.S., increasing by up to 27 days between 1995 and 2011.
Climate change is also causing vector-carrying mosquitos and ticks to expand their range in North America, and widening the yearly window for the transmission of certain diseases.
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Climate Change Will Make Us Sicker And Make Our Food Less Nutritious (Original Post)
applegrove
Apr 2016
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. kick, kick, kick....
And as long as money is in control of our political system we will be kept from making any of the changes we need to have any chance of addressing the problem.
applegrove
(118,021 posts)3. There is a reason southern climates are poor. Disease, water problems, etc.
Last edited Tue Apr 5, 2016, 12:32 AM - Edit history (1)
Poor soil quality. All related to climate. Why want more of that? I mean there is a brain eating amoeba working it's way north in lakes.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)4. ......
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)2. and why has this not been mentioned in a single debate?
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)6. Climate change hasn't been mentioned in a single debate?
that's just incorrect.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)7. sorry republican debate - but nothing important is ever discussed there/
Lodestar
(2,388 posts)5. But of course! Look at all the auto-immune diseases.
Immune systems breaking down.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)8. hillary will save us
she is like a goddess