Stephanie Clement: Covid, climate and community: Lessons from a pandemic
Posted about 5 years ago by Meredith Roberts
Great article: Stephanie Clement: COVID, climate and community: Lessons from a pandemic
Discusses masks, Millenials, and a diagram from the Center for Disease Control showing the potential health effects of different environmental changes- Covid-19 falls into one out of the eight health impacts. She also discusses several climate bills and provides links on the Global Warming Solutions Act (or, H.688, read it here), which resets Vermont’s greenhouse gas emissions targets and forces state government to figure out how we will those limits, and (2) the Climate Change Response Plan (S.185, read it here) which views climate change as a public health threat and thus mandates communication and planning with local public health agencies, hospitals, and health care workers to put climate mitigation ideas into action and prepare for health problems caused by climate change...