Posted on 11/12/2022 7:02:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The ongoing effects of climate change continue to plague our global ecosystem and place communities of lower socioeconomic status at risk.
Medical experts say there's another side effect. Climate change's impact on youth health.
Dr. Leah Werner, a family medicine doctor, and professor at the Oregon Health and Science University says children are not as well adept at thermoregulation, and their lungs and heart and more sensitive than adults, leaving them at risk of developing a variety of illnesses.
Dr. Werner emphasized how kids in low-income areas are most vulnerable, and Bill Ripple, an ecology professor at Oregon State University agrees.
He's the author of a climate report called 'World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022.’
Ripple says greenhouse gas emissions rising 40% over the last 30 years, with more climate disasters occurring in recent years.
With more climate disasters happening, kids everywhere are paying the price, he said.
Dr. Werner says now is the time to act. Medical education can train family physicians, pediatricians, internal medicine docs, OBGYNs, and psychiatrists to begin addressing climate change concerns within family units and patients, both adults and with children.
She also says it's important to teach adults how to have these conversations with their children.
“We’re looking at a time where the field of medicine has a professional responsibility to address this and keep our communities healthy," she said.
Schools also play a role in educating and protecting kids against climate change. Many schools in our area have installed HEPA air filters and updated AC units to protect students during the summer months and wildfire season.
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These “experts” are impacts on youth health.
I’ve heard this nonsense since the early 70’s...and live to tell about it.
Are young people dying?
Yes, but not of global warming.
The harm to youths health is from the constant fear-mongering of these bat-crap crazy loons squawking about how the world is damned unless we do something! Tue world is damned unless we do something! It never stops.
Climate change affects the children, but so does abortion....so there’s that.
Don’t you just love the word, “experts?”
Here is my take: How many times do the “experts” have to be wrong before we quit calling them “experts?”
Doesn’t have to be sane. It just needs to herd the mindless
in the same direction.
“You old people screwed us, and now we’re going to screw
you!”
Never mind it will be a suicide pact. They’ll have shown us.
Good one, but today we’d probably be better off to hire this
type of guy.
We’re dealing with some very sordid people on the Left,
and their minions.
The health impact is they are full of crap and have no scientific evidence.
The temp every single day has a wide range so no 1/2 a degree spread out over the next 100 years matters not a tiny bit.
Oh my; isn’t there anything CLIMATE CHANGE CAN’T DO?
No more cattle (steaks), no more sheep (lamb chops), no more pigs (bacon), no more chickens (eggs/fried chicken), no more meat of any four legged animal!
We will just have to find them (EXPERTS) hiding in their holes, KILL, THEM BARBECUE THEM, AND EAT THEM!
AAAHHHHH; that delicious LONG PIG!
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