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Prepare for Public Health Challenges of Global Warming

Target: Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Sponsored by: Environmental Defense Fund
We are all too familiar with the consequences of global warming.

But how many of us know the public health threats that exist? The World Health Organization estimates that 150,000 people die every year from the effects of climate change, and millions more suffer from illness, malnutrition and other health problems due to a warming planet.

A new Environmental Defense Fund report, Are We Ready? Preparing for the Public Health Challenges of Climate Change, reveals critical gaps in our public health system's ability to respond to growing health threats from climate change.

Now, help make public health preparedness a top priority! Send a message to the Secretary of Health and Human Services today!
deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000
 

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Secretary Leavitt,

I am writing this to urge you to close the preparedness gap in our ability to meet the public health challenges of climate change, as detailed in a new report by Environmental Defense Fund. The report highlights declining overall preparedness budgets in recent years and the fact that most local health directors feel they lack the needed resources to be adequately prepared.

The CDC has acknowledged the likelihood that climate change will contribute to serious health problems, in the United States and around the world, in the future. These problems include illnesses and deaths from heat waves, more intense hurricanes and floods, poor air quality, and from infectious diseases.
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9:29 am PDT, May 2, Crissy Baker, Florida
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11:17 pm PDT, May 1, BiLL Fowlie, Maine
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8:40 pm PDT, May 1, Name not displayed, California
also the challenges of immigration and world travel that have brought so many diseases to different countries.
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2:26 pm PDT, May 1, Jeanie Buerger, Massachusetts
150,000 a year die already Sir. Do you want all these deaths on your shoulders. That is a heavy burden you will carry if healthcare isnt ready for this crisis
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8:32 pm PDT, Apr 30, Zoe Van Nostrand, Georgia
When there is a hurricane warning, you stock up on food, board up your windows, maybe even leave. We have no where to go to, hiding behind boarded window's will not save us, but if we prepare, humans might just make it out of this problem that we created
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8:40 am PDT, Apr 30, Rob Levy, United Kingdom
The market,isn't going to do this ,the government has to take responsibility.
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8:06 am PDT, Apr 30, Robin Allen, California
Let's not let another Katrina happen before we increase our funding to the necessary agencies. Empower our states and local communities to prepare NOW for their people. We KNOW climate change is affecting us!
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6:24 am PDT, Apr 30, Robert Michael Andrews, Florida
Global worming is as much of a fact as pollution or species extinction. This three things are excepted by most scientists as coming from human activities.
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5:37 pm PDT, Apr 29, KRISANN GUIDOTTI, New York
WHY DO I HAVE TO CONVINCE YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING?PLEASE STOP THE HESITATION AND GET GOING.
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