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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
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!
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!
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IT IS ALLREADY CHANGING WEATHER PATTERNS AND MUCH MORE!! TIME IS YESTERDAY TO START WORKING ION THIS!!! EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!!!
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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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Our public health (hospitals, etc.) infrastructure could use improving whether deaths are caused by global warming or some other cause.
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Climate change is a huge deal for us. No matter what part of the US you live in. It affects every living and breathing animal. Please help!
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The urgency of this issue is highlighted by the recent disturbing allegations that Vice President Cheney's office edited testimony from the CDC to remove information about the public health impacts of global warming, to prevent industries such as power plants, the automobile industy, and manufacturing from facing more stringent air quality controls designed to limit carbon dioxide emissions. Such shortsightedness will undoubtedly lead to many more cases of death, disability, and illness than we should be willing to accept for our fellow Americans.
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Seeing the devistation of Srilanka and other tsunomis, knowing the facts of "An Inconvenient Truth", there is no way you could in good conscience ignore the consequence of nonpreparedness. The political fallout of inaction will surely be disasterous for you as well.
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This is the most important issue facing our world today.
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This is one of the scariest things to face as the years pass. I am more than concerned about the health issues we must face as natural disasters become more prevalent. Be smart about decisions that need to be made NOW to protect our future children and their world.
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