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Global Atmospheric Change and Public Health (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Global Atmospheric Change and Public Health (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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The world is just beginning to face up to the problems which will
be brought about by global climate change. Most people equate
climate change with rising temperatures, disturbed weather
patterns, agricultural crises, and sea level rises; yet potential
health effects may be the most significant factors in the whole
developing picture. Man's effect on climate accelerates as
population increases. Population increases strain infrastructures
and strained infrastructures lead to stresses on society. We
already are experiencing higher ultraviolet B radiation through our
depleted ozone layer and can expect more cancers, more cataracts,
and diminishing immunity. Expected changing weather and storm
patterns may result in disturbed and diminished agricultural
production with malnutrition and famine on a grandiose scale;
diseases would migrate and the number of displaced persons would
increase greatly. This book consists of papers presented at a
meeting on Global Atmospheric Change and Public Health, held in
Washington, D.C., in December 1989. It was sponsored by the Air
Resources Information Clearinghouse (ARIC), a project of the Center
for En vironmental Information, Inc. (CEI), a nonprofit
organization in Rochester, New York, and co-sponsored by thirty-two
U.S., Canadian and international organizations and agencies. The
conference was the first to bring together in a public forum the
health, scien tific, policy and information communities to address
the issues. The book examines potential public health and
health-related impacts on society, communicable diseases, cancer
and cataract, immunity, heat effects, respiratory problems and
human nutrition."
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