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“Scientists now know, too, that huge dust storms like the ones that recently blanketed Arizona, northern China, Australia, and other arid areas are also responsible for spreading lethal epidemics around the world.”
― Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
― Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
“experts used to believe diseases were mostly transmitted by people or animals, many now maintain that airborne dust clouds can carry viruses like influenza or SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and other potentially harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungal spores over thousands of miles.”
― Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
― Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
“The effect of a warming planet on our health is “a threat that’s been completely neglected, marginalized, and ignored by the global health community and by policy makers,” as a team of British scientists recently concluded in a landmark report in the venerable medical journal The Lancet.”
― Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
― Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
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“Climate change is not just about melting icebergs, storm surges, floods, and droughts, according to Parenti. A warmer world will be more dangerous and unstable, and the damage caused by climbing temperatures will be a catalyst for escalating religious conflicts, civil wars, failed states, mass migrations, and border militarization”
― Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
― Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health -- and how we can save ourselves
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