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Killer Combination: Climate, Health and Poverty

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Climate One

Social Sciences, Science, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences

4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmental health and the current pandemic may seem like three distinct problems, to those in the health and environmental justice field, that’s not the case. "All of them are connected," says Adrienne Hollis of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "And the underlying cause is systemic racism." "If you want to address pandemics, and you want to address climate change, you’ve got to focus on equity," agrees Aaron Bernstein of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. "And the solution, and the great news in some ways, is that these actions you need to take are one and the same." How are heat, lack of sanitation, and other environmental issues killing Americans in underserved communities? A conversation on what happens when climate, health, and poverty converge. Guests: Catherine Coleman Flowers, Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice; Author, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret  (The New Press, 2020) Adrienne Hollis, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director, Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health  For complete show notes, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What happens when climate, human health and poverty converge? Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency,

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the individual and the systemic, the exciting, and the scary.

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I'm Greg Dalton.

0:49.5

Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise.

0:55.7

And while climate disruption, environmental health, and the current pandemic may seem like

0:59.7

three distinct problems, to many experts, that's not the case.

1:03.6

All of them are connected. The underlying cause is systemic racism. And because of that,

1:09.2

communities are affected by adverse effects from climate change. And because of that, communities are affected by adverse effects from climate change

1:12.9

and because of exposure to hazardous substances, because of where they live, because of redlining

1:18.7

and such, they are more at risk from COVID-19 infections and deaths.

1:24.2

And so if you want to address pandemics and you want to address climate change, you've got to focus on equity.

1:30.3

And the solution and the great news in some ways is that the actions you need to take are one and the same.

1:37.4

Adrian Hollis is Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

1:42.7

And Aaron Bernstein is interim director of the Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Aaron Bernstein is interim director of the Center for

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