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AND AND

YOUR YOUR

HEALTHHEALTH

CLIMATE CHANGE

IN A NUTSHELL

Carbon is the building block of life

CHOCOLATE CHOLESTEROL

ALCOHOLSTARCH

EVERYTHING THAT WAS EVER ALIVE HAS CARBON IN IT

Burning releases carbon into the air as carbon

dioxide (CO2).

Earth can only absorb half. The rest is building up in our atmosphere

where it blankets our planet, trapping heat from the sun.

WARMERAverage Temperature Increase per Decade

Since 1970

MORE EXTREME

THE BASIC ESSENTIALS

AIR

WATER

FOOD

SAFE PLACE

Case One

The boy who stopped playing soccer.

ASTHMA

GROUND LEVEL OZONECleveland, OH

AIR

AIRBad Nearby

Good Up High

Ozone increases with temperature

Ozone Irritates the Lungs

Ozone Causes Asthma In Children

Ozone Kills

CHANGE IN OZONE LEVEL

DEATHS

POLLEN

more for longer

MOLD causes asthma and triggers attacks

Rates of allergies and asthma have tripled since the 1960s

von Hertzen L, Hanski I, Haahtela T. Natural Immunity. EMBO Reports 12:1089–1093, 2011

Quest Lab 2011 4 years, 14 million allergy tests

WILDFIRE SMOKE

Colorado Springs, CO 2013

Fine particles in wildfire smoke trigger asthma attacks,

cause heart attacks, and worsen heart failure

lowers birth weights

Smoke travels

Fire in New Mexico Smoke in Denver, CO Memorial Day 2012

DUST STORMS

Phoenix, AZ 2011

MMWR March 29, 2013 / 62(12);217-221

VALLEY FEVER

Erionite: a mineral carcinogen

Phoenix, AZ 2012

LEAD POISONING

Indianapolis Children's Lead Levels

Laidlaw. Environ Health Perspect.  2005 June;  113(6): 793–800.

Half a million US kids brain damaged from lead

Detroit, MI

CASE 2.

A city with a “run” on diarrhea remedies.

Cryptosporidium

Flash Flood Pittsburgh, PA

WATER

Combined Sewer Overflow

Pittsburgh, PAAllegheny River

Duluth, MN 2012 New Jersey 2012 5 weeks post Sandy

Sewage in the streets

Sewage in Drinking WaterMorehouse, MO April 2013

RAINFALL AND PEDIATRIC ER VISITS FOR DIARRHEA

RECREATIONAL WATERBORNE OUTBREAKSUS 1978-2008

San Antonio, TX May 2013

Lake Erie11 million people drink this

BLUE GREEN ALGAE TOXINS cause rash, diarrhea, hepatitis and liver cancer

can kill dogs and small children

CASE 3.The man who was too weak to walk .

Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning

Harmful Algae Blooms and Toxins

Reported Poisonings

FOOD

VIBRIO

AFLATOXINcauses liver cancer

Missouri 2012

Crop mycotoxin map 10/12

FATTY LIVER EPIDEMIC

INSECT BORNE DISEASES

West Nile Virus

West Nile Virus Spread 1999-2004

Dengue 1960 2005

DENGUE

Florida 2012

A SAFE ENVIRONMENT

Colorado Springs, CO 2013

DISPLACEMENTInternal

New York 2012 Colorado 2013

EXTREME HEATEurope 2003

70,000 deaths

Phoenix, Az

Sources of GHG Top 10 causes of death

DUE TO PHYSICAL INACTIVITY

HEART DISEASE,OBESITY, DIABETES; COLON CANCERPROSTATE CANCER, AND RECURRENT BREAST CANCER

ONE THIRD

Air Pollution

WE WIN THE MEAT EATING CONTEST

PRIZE: Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer

average per capita meat consumption

ME EITHERME EITHER

http://climateinteractive.org/scoreboardJune 2010 June 2013

If we don't cut our emissions in half by 2030, global temperature will rise 7-12 degrees by 2100

and stay that way for 1,000 years.

A Healthy Prescription

For Climate Action

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATIONSMART DEVELOPMENT

SAFE BIKING AND WALKINGRAPID EFFICIENT PUBLIC TRANSIT

10,000 colon cancers

215,000 heart attacks PREVENTED570,000 new diabetes cases each year

ENERGY EFFICIENT CARS AND HOMESHOME RETROFITS, COMPETITIVE FUEL ECONOMY

ZERO EMISSIONS VEHICLES

118 mpg eqivalent Zero Energy Home

INVEST AND INCENTIVIZE CLEAN ENERGYNO EXPORTS

NO NEW COAL PLANTS COST OF DIRTY ENERGY UP FRONT

20,000 Heart Attacks PREVENTED23,000 Deaths each year

SUBSIDIZE FARMERS WHO GROW WHAT WE SHOULD EAT

300,000 Heart Attacks/Strokes PREVENTED260,000 New Diabetes Cases each year144,000 Cancer Deaths

CASE 5

climate911.org

Healthy People

Healthy Planet