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Climate chaos : your health at risk : what you can do to protect yourself and your family
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- Creator
- Cindy L. Parker and Steven M. Shapiro
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- English
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- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780275998585, 0275998584
- OCLC
- ocn222666592
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-213) and index.
- Series foreword -- 1. A climate change tale -- 2. Climate chaos : what may come -- What this book is about -- What's happening to our climate -- Why the climate is changing -- The greenhouse effect -- Greenhouse gases and temperature -- Sea level rise -- Dangerous climate change -- The most worrisome greenhouse gases -- The speed of climate change -- Greenhouse gas emissions across nations -- Peak petroleum -- The book's outline -- 3. Temperature : home is getting hotter -- It could get hot -- Heat and our health -- The most vulnerable to heat stress -- Poverty : another risk factor for heat stress -- Geography matters -- Gender considerations -- Race and ethnicity -- Fewer deaths from cold weather? -- Global warming and behavior -- Solutions -- 4. Air : breathing harder -- The climate-air pollution connection -- Ozone and health -- Who is most vulnerable to ozone effects? -- Children -- Other vulnerable populations -- Particulate matter -- Forest fires and breathing -- Dust -- Other air toxins -- Pollen and climate change -- Who decides how clean our air will be? -- Air quality and your mental health -- Solutions -- 5. Water : water, water everywhere or neverthere -- Risks to our water -- How we use water -- Where our water comes from -- How much water we need -- Droughts affect health -- Droughts and infectious disease -- Droughts and fires -- Floods affect health -- Climate change and water availability -- Melting snowpack -- Melting glaciers -- Desalination -- Bottled water -- Water conservation--more than just personal virtue -- Water scarcity, conservation, and mental health -- Solutions -- 6. Cataclysmic events : pounding people and the planet -- A cavalcade of harm -- Floods and inundations -- Floods, contamination, and disease -- Floods, mold, and more -- Storm surge -- Saltwater contamination of wells -- Erosion -- Other effects of cataclysmic events on health -- Risk to infrastructure and health -- Displaced people -- Conflict --Cataclysmic events and mental health -- The science of a rise in sea level -- Thermal expansion -- Melting inland glaciers -- Greenland's melting ice -- Melting Arctic Sea ice -- Melting Antarctica -- Melting ice = sea-level rise -- The science of hurricanes and other storms -- Solutions --
- 7. Infectious disease : bacteria, viruses, and parasites, oh my -- The relationship between climate and infectious disease -- Malaria and climate change -- Other diseases mosquitoes carry -- Diseases from other insects -- Diseases carried on ocean and wind currents -- Foodborne diseases -- What's next? -- Infectious disease and mental health -- Solutions -- 8. Food : nature's bounty bashed -- Plants, climate change, and our food supply -- How crops grow -- Heat's harm to crops -- Climate change and pesticide use on crops -- Soil, erosion, and climate change -- Plants and ozone -- After peak oil and its effect on food -- Aquatic and marine food supply -- Climate change and food toxins -- How much of an effect? -- Meat : what we eat drives climate change -- Other contributors to climate change -- Biofuels -- Climate, food, and mental health -- Solutions -- 9. Ecosystem health : cycles of life...or death -- Ecosystems and our health -- Farms and prairies -- Mountains -- Forests and biodiversity -- Coastal wetland ecosystems and storm buffers -- Marine ecosystems -- Marine dead zones -- Biodiversity loss and infectious disease -- Biodiversity loss = extinction -- Energy and ecosystem health -- Coal's damage to ecosystems -- Oil's damage to ecosystems -- Reducing the impact of fossil fuels on the climate and ecosystems -- Energy efficiency -- Geoengineering -- Alternatives to fossil fuels -- Renewable energy -- Nuclear energy -- A final word on ecosystems -- Solutions -- 10. Human behavior : choice to change -- Where human behavior and climate change meet -- How we come to behave -- How we change our behavior -- Individuals and climate change -- Brains and behavior -- Environmental concern and emotions -- Thinking : beyond concern to attitudes, beliefs, values... -- Personal responsibility and self-efficacy -- Risk perception and fear -- Sociodemographic variables -- Hope for individual behavior -- Community factors and climate change -- Economics -- Government and institutional policies -- Media and communications -- Social identity : norms, connections, and movements -- Place -- Other external factors -- Hope for the meeting of individual and community factors -- Solutions -- 11. Epilogue -- References -- Index