Killer Combination: Climate, Health and Poverty
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:31.9 | What happens when climate, human health and poverty converge? Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency, |
| 0:40.3 | the individual and the systemic, the exciting, and the scary. |
| 0:43.8 | 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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