The Health Hazards of One Degree

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🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Global warming is hitting closer to home than we think, from a neighborhood child gasping with asthma to a parent collapsing from heatstroke. These realities led U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to assert in April that climate change presents the most complex threat to public health in U.S. history. Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Linda Rudolph, Director, Center for Climate Change and Health, Public Health Institute Robert Gould, Director of Health Professional Outreach and Education, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, UCSF Katrina Peters, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on April 5, 2016 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Climate One podcast is sponsored by General Motors.
0:05.0	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?
0:10.3	Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:16.8	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:23.6	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,
0:28.0	Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.
0:31.6	It's our future. It's time to come together.
0:37.1	Mosquitoes, anyone?
0:38.3	I'm Greg Dalton, and on the show today, we'll examine how global warming could impact
0:42.6	your personal health more than your favorite cocktail or that decadent dessert that you
0:47.3	love.
0:48.3	Mention global warming to your friends in the images that come to mind for many people, melting
0:53.2	glaciers and scrawny polar bears,
0:55.7	maybe rising seas and faraway lands.
0:58.3	A growing number of doctors say you should also think of the Zika virus,
1:02.2	a child in your neighborhood gasping with asthma,
1:05.1	or your parent collapsing from heat stroke.
1:07.9	In early April, the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murty said that climate change
1:11.7	presents the most complex threat to public health in U.S. history. Over the next hour, we'll
1:17.6	learn about the connection between warming temperatures and your health from doctors joining us
1:22.1	today at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Katrina Peters is a psychiatrist at San Francisco
1:27.3	General Hospital, and associate clinical
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