Climate change is radically affecting our brain health
Neuroscientist turned environmental journalist Clayton Aldern reports an unreported crisis in neurological health linked to climate chang
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Neuroscientist turned environmental journalist Clayton Aldern reports an unreported crisis in neurological health linked to climate chang
Climate change is spurring an unreported crisis in neurological health
“Climate change is killing a lot of people, nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it.”
In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? McMichael’s research team tallied up how many lives had been lost to diarrheal disease, malnutrition, malaria, cardiovascular disease (a proxy for heat-related illness), and flooding, worldwide, in the year 2000. The
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