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This is Ted Health.

I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerlier.

How is quality health care connected to climate change?

It turns out that care infrastructure can be damaged by extreme climate events while

also creating its own sizeable carbon footprint.

Climate and health campaigner Shweta Narion believes that health, not wealth, should guide

climate solutions.

And her powerful call to action delivered at the Ted countdown summit in 2021.

Chicksplains, why do no harm, needs to be the universal standard for decision making on

a planet in peril.

I grew up in Bukaro Steel City in eastern India, an industrial township surrounded by

power plants and steel smelters.

One of my fondest memories as a child was to stare in the evenings at the beautiful

orange skies and flaring chimneys of the steel plant.

Little did I know at that time that these were all classic signs of severe air pollution.

Cities like Bukaro were dubbed as the temples of modern India that propelled the country

into the 21st century.

I now work at the intersection of environment, health and justice.

I've been in this space for nearly two decades and my experience tells that the negative

impacts of industrialization have outweighed the good.

I've also in my work come across several individuals and groups who, despite all odds, go beyond

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