Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Monday, August 31, 2009 12:43:04 PM
Here is your
Eureka Alert! for today. If you eat less red meat, you can prevent cancer, heart attacks, and global warming!
And that is not all!
Cardiovascular disease and cancer are two human diseases caused by similar factors influencing climate change. Others are the infectious disease influenza and salmonella, which are also related to animal elevation (zoonoses). Further examples not specifically related to agriculture, are respiratory diseases resulting from the burning of fossil and other fuels for transport and heating.
A different group of diseases cannot be said to share the causes of global warming. Instead they are caused by, or exacerbated by global warming. Examples are thermal stress, accidental and intentional injuries, and malnutrition or famine, all of which are expected to occur more frequently as the planet warms up and the climate becomes less stable. Health care systems all over the world will have to adapt to these changes.
Accidental or intentional injuries are made worse by global warming? How do they come up with this stuff?
Human disease and global warming are therefore related in several ways, and the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as national medical associations, have adopted policies to take these interrelationships into account.
The real problem is that this is becoming common practice. It's like the six dgrees from Kevin Bacon theory. Everything is linked to global warming in some way, shape or form; sometimes in less than six degrees.
All of this reminds me of the old 1/2 hour news hour show that FOX had on for a very short stint. This was a good one: