Following on from our posting on 5 November last year, a new report on this topic has just been published published by the Nautilus Institute.
In Climate change in Australia: risks to human wellbeing and health, author Anthony McMichael writes that "climate change belongs to a wider range of human-induced global environmental changes that are now assuming great and urgent importance. Collectively, these changes signify that human pressures are weakening and endangering the planet’s life support systems. Climate change will have many, and diverse, effects on human biological processes, risks of injury, and hence on health." McMichael discusses the adverse health impacts of climate change on those most likely to bear the greatest burden: low-income, poorly-resourced and geographically vulnerable populations.
In a similar vein, ABC Radio National's Health Report on 2 March included a report about malaria and climate change from the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, which was recently held in Chicago.
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