Health - a Victim of Climate Change
More malaria, diarrhea, and asthma: these diseases are on the rise around the world because of environmental destruction and kill some three million children under five and two million adults a year. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
What I think matters is the effort of highlighting the way in which human intervention in the environment amplifies pathogens and mechanisms of transmitting diseases. It's not that the diseases are caused by deforestation and global warming, but that they are greatly "helped" to gain into human territory. It's about what's avoidable.