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Ethics Climate Change and Health

“Climate Change is a MORAL issue”. Ethics Climate Change and Health. 2007 Nobel Laureate Al Gore. New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Climate change is already contributing to morbidity and mortality

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Ethics Climate Change and Health

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  1. “Climate Change is a MORAL issue” Ethics Climate Change and Health 2007 Nobel Laureate Al Gore

  2. New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

  3. Climate change is already contributing to morbidity and mortality Warming during 1970-2000 is estimated to have caused at least 160,000 deaths and 5 million DALYs annually (from just 4 outcomes: malaria, diarrhea, malnutrion, and flooding). WHO, 2004. GLOBAL WARMING: the largest ethical problem today? CO2 emissions vs Climate-related burden of disease Patz et al. in press, 2007 Sources: McMichael et al; 2003 Campbell-Lendrum et al; 2004 Patz et al. 2005

  4. Cartogram of Climate-related Mortality (per million pop) yr. 2000 Gibbs et al. , in preparation

  5. Gibbs et al. , in preparation

  6. ‘Co-Benefits’ of GHG Reduction • Fossil Fuels are source of GHGs and local air pollutants • Deaths from Air Pollution ranked within top 10 causes of disability • 800,000/yr avoidable deaths due to outdoor PM air pollution(WHO, 1997) • 3/4 of the world’s 24 megacities are in developing countries; GHG mitigation --> major ‘co-benefits’ (Cifuentes et al 2001)

  7. Triple Win Bike Project • Health (personal) • Local Air Pollution (local) • Global Climate Change (global) …Why global climate change could be the greatest public health opportunity we’ve had in over a century!

  8. Two main factors: • Mass marketing and availability of junk food and ‘supersized’ portions • Sedentary lifestyles (unhealthy urban and neighborhood designs lead both to obesity and greenhouse gas emissions) --> Triple Win Biking case study

  9. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2001 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4” person) No Data <10% 10%–14 15%–19% 20%–24% ≥25%

  10. Status of Americans • ≈ 2/3 U.S. adults ≥ 20 are overweight or obese • ≈ 15 % of children and adolescents age 6-19 are overweight (CDC 2004). • 20.8 million people have diabetes (7% of the population) (CDCP 2005) • 60% of American adults do not meet recommended levels of physical activity, and 25% are completely sedentary (DHHS, 1996) 40% of trips by car are < 2 miles (Dept of Transportation)

  11. Ten Leading Causes of US Deaths per Year (CDC, 2004)

  12. For Madison, if 20% of car trips were replaced by bike trips: Grabow et al, in preparation • 10 lbs (4.5 kg) lost /person/yr (for 6.8 mi. roundtrip commute) • 12% fall each in Ozone and NOx : 2% drop in PM2.5 • 17,990 fewer lost-work days/yr • 1,906 fewer Asthma admisisons/yr • 14,586 fewer acute respiratory cases/yr • $40 million saved in health costs/yr 3. 16,687 tons of CO2 not emitted The Triple Win

  13. Biofuels and Food Security The amount of humanitarian food aid available for extremely impoverished countries will be affected in the short term as food aid shipments from the USA are inversely correlated to commodity prices (Naylor et al. 2007) For every percentage increase in the real prices of staple foods, 16 million more people could become food-insecure (Runge, 2003)

  14. Biofuels: The End of Biodiversity? • Rush to rapidly switch energy sources away from oil and increase reliance on crop-derived ethanol or biodiesel also could have devastating effects on the fate of the world’s forests. • Vast majority of newly expanding oil palm fields have replaced closed forest in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia and increases in soybeanproduction in Brazil coincide with more forest conversion. (Gibbs unpublished data)

  15. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi

  16. Information for middleschool teachers, students, and the general public ECOHEALTH101.ORG THANK YOU !

  17. ECOHEALTH • Official Journal of the International Association for Ecology & Health www.ecohealth.net Thank You !

  18. Drs. Howard Frumkin (Director NCEH/ATSDR - CDC) and Jonathan Patz (University of Wisconsin) @ DC APHA Climate Change Panel (Nov 6 2007)

  19. Drs. Janvier Gasana (FIU) and Jonathan Patz (University of Wisconsin) @ DC APHA Climate Change Panel (Nov 6 2007)

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