Shepparton’s Slap
Tomorrow is ahead of the game.
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| Prof. Helen Berry. |
Last week it co-ordinated and staged a forum entitled “Community
Health in Different Climate” at which four presenters helped those who attended
to better understand the connection between health and climate change.
And just today (March 31) came the latest report from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in which the Canberra authors
of the relevant section said climate change will increasingly harm people’s
health and Australians will be particularly vulnerable.
Not only will our health be more at risk, but many areas of
the world are likely to become uninhabitable.
University of Canberra’s Professor Helen Berry is one of
three Canberra researchers who have contributed to the health section of the
report.
She has said that human health has so far been neglected in
public discussions on climate change, pointing out that most conversation to
date has focused on the environment and the economic effects of reducing
emissions.
The ABC reporting today on the latest IPCC in a story headed: “Climate change could be putting human health at risk: Australian IPCC report researchers” warned that unchecked climate change would
result in many deaths.
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