New Article in the Journal of Environmental Health, “The Climate World Is Changing, So Can We”

ecoAmerica’s column in the National Environmental Health Association’s Journal of Environmental Health, “The Climate World Is Changing, So Can We” by Nicole Hill, MPH, and Ben Fulgencio-Turner, MPP, CPH is now available in the March 2023 issue.

Over the past century, the world has experienced a dramatic increase in emissions from burning fossil fuels, resulting in changes to the climate across the globe (Lindsey, 2022). We know that the outcome of these changes on human health is far-reaching, with every child around the world at risk from at least one climate change impact such as heat and air pollution (UNICEF, 2021). The 2022 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown (2022) confirms that life-threatening extreme weather events are becoming more frequent. These risks and health impacts are changing attitudes of people in the U.S. A 2022 ecoAmerica survey revealed that nearly 7 in 10 people in the U.S. agree that climate change is a serious problem (Hill, 2022).

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