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Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of a Left podcast with Clipsidae from the

Global Climate and Health Alliance, the David Pakman Show, the Young Turks, the Tom

Harman program, Moyers & Company, Counter-Spin, the Majority Report, the Green

News Report and Activism from Best of a Left. For many, the words climate change

conjures images of polar bears and melting ice caps, but one of the biggest

impacts is much closer to home, the threat to our health. The Lancet, one of the

world's most influential medical journals, has called climate change the

biggest global health threat of the 21st century. The latest report from the UN's

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change outlines the impact on human health

and well-being. Using the best science available, now more certain than ever, it

details the risks and vulnerabilities each country faces. The report describes

the world where an additional 25 million children are undenurished, where

dangerous infectious diseases like malaria spread to new shores, where natural

disasters like Typhoon Haiyan, Hurricane Katrina, floods in the UK and Europe, and

bushfires in Australia become more severe affecting many more people. These

pressures are likely to exacerbate poverty, civil unrest and conflict around

the world, but the story doesn't have to end that way.

The irony is that while we're on a path that is very dangerous, there is another

path that is not only safe, but it's going to lead to higher quality of life,

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