How Climate Change Is Challenging American Health Care

Climate change can seem almost too big to fathom. Reports such as the recent National Climate Assessment and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent release have made waves by portraying the dire threats of a warming world, making the case that the fundamental fabric of humanity will be degraded without immediate action. But the scenarios—the biblical floods and droughts, the mass migrations of dispossessed people, the creeping seas and the retreating glaciers—have a way of short-circuiting the brain. It’s almost easier to despair or to will oneself into ignorance than to begin to grapple with the future. What are human lives when measured against the coming tempest?

Gina McCarthy, a former administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, says climate change
 can reverse major public-health gains.

Read the story from The Atlantic by Van R. Newkirk II - “How Climate Change Is Challenging American Health Care.”