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habitat which is that key threat enough's enough for the quality really if we want quality to survive decade into the future, then we need to draw some lines around that habitat. we need to draw some lines around it and say, development is not appropriate here. carlos need this habitat to survive, and we need to designate where and development on gain development is appropriate. and it's not beyond the width of the australian government to do that. so that's what we're really calling on and each day because she's a really sad day. ah, this is out there and these, the top stories, the u. s. president is urging americans to leave ukraine as concerns grow that moscow could invade the country. but he said he won't send troops to get americans out. biden was asked about us citizens safety or m b. c. news. you know from over there. that's why would i bashed is american traditions should leave,
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a refugee camp with no electricity. and right now where confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity is ever faced. and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise. because that's the only way we can try to solve any of these problem is together. that's why they are so important. we make those connections. i i am from the ok to down this gene. we are going to be looking at the impact that are changing climate is having on our health. if you're on youtube right now, be part of the conversation. the conversation is right here. it is live. if you've experienced climate change related health conditions, please share them with us. be part of today shut. oh, widespread scientific consensus tells us the world's climate is changing. these
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changes are creating new health risks in communities across the united states. extreme whether unhealthy air quality and disease outbreaks are becoming more frequent and more severe, affecting more people in more places. so that video was produced by the centers for disease control and prevention in the united states. it was aimed at community so that they knew what climate change may well do regarding health and how they can prepare for that changing health in communities. so we have exactly that on today's show with the assistance of maria, marina and elijah. so good to have you owe with us. we're welcome to the strain. please introduce yourself to our global audience. hi, i am maria naida, the director of the department of environment, climate change, and sales are the walker organization in geneva. say, happy with you. oh,
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we are very happy. we're delighted to have you here on the stream. marina, please introduce yourself to our view as around the world. hi everyone. i'm marina romanella. i'm the executive director for the lands that count on, on health and climate change, which is her research collaboration. looking at interconnections between her and calamity is love to be here yet to have you in our life. welcome to the steam, please introduce yourself to our audience. tell them who you are, what you do. thank you so much for having me. my name is elaine laney, i'm a 4th year medical student at emory university in atlanta. and i've been working with an incredible team trying to brain climate change and environmental health curriculum to our medical school. i am going to start with just making that very direct connection between climate change and health conditions. emeline, give us one example straight away. so what he's got, oh okay, i get it now. go ahead and climate change, heat and heat illness. all right, marina, i,
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i will extend what has, has been said and see also about the hope, extreme heat and our exposure to extreme weather. also london, my, our capacity to do labor outdoors due to exercise, to carry out our normal life that falls under my, our health. maria, i think i will go for the much you have far behind you with the lungs. i think they did, the bad quality of the air we are breathing today is very much connected to the causes of climate change in the causes of her pollution. so bringing the much of the lungs to the issue of climate change. i think it changed completely. the narrative we're been, we have been using them been now, and i think is very important. i'm going to scroll through some of the other conditions that can well apply to climate change and our global health injury. and we'll tell it from extreme weather events. we've seen that the flooding
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in northern europe, heat related illnesses, of gas, already mentioned that respiratory illnesses. this is what maria was talking about . remember the se in fire that we saw in australia not so long ago. also on the west coast of the us water born diseases and other water related health impacts that will connect to extreme flooding, more flooding war, regular flooding. so noses yet, we all know about this right now. we're, we're in a cove it pandemic right now. so you know about that connection between bats and humans and cove at 19 vector borne diseases. this is a huge list of i scared your audience. ma, nutrition of food borne diseases, not communicable diseases, mental and psycho social health. this is a huge area, maria, when we are looking at climate change, is anyone looking at this, apart from the very specialized or bubbles? are we thinking about this as countries as regions realizing that a health and
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a health systems need to be prepared? yes, this is a very good point because seem doubly chill. this is what we have been trying to do for a long time, making sure that everybody understand the connection with our heads. and the connection is very clear. if we keep burning fossil fuels as we are doing now, not only we are elevating they, i mean creating global warming, but we are as well grading air pollution and that air pollution is killing us, is killing 7000000 people every single year. 7000000 people that is losing their life because of his post, where pollution they have asthma, they have grown e grispy, i'm sorry, the seas is they have lung cancer. they have obviously a stroke in any scare me hard diseases. and this is happening in most of the big see these and according to our studies, 90 percent of the people around the world is breathing air. now that the star seek
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is, and he's not contributing to, i will have that the country. you know, the sure you saw the sleep, the mosquito that you have when you were on your graphic, that little mosquito we just meet the see says like malaria or thing it. well, this lovely mosquito is now reproducing the himself very well or herself because he's a female one, just meeting malaria in places where we even see it before in kenya for instance in some high level places. and now we see it because of the global warming or bang games, some places he nice. yeah. i can give you plenty of his samples. so the see says that we didn't see it before. and because of the global warming, we see, and then people displacing bandler this, they need to move because they, they all see and he's coming. so i think we can get plenty of samples that for people to understand that this is very close to then. and he's not an issue for the next generations, you know,
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and just to saving the planet and the polar bears. these is about saving our health right now. saving our se right now, our economy, our society, and making sure that we put the basest or a meaning on quality of life. i really maria, and i would say there's also something very interesting in the light that you presented, that he chose to the extent of the interference of climate change with our health undermining or you want to think you would give. maria said the air that we breathe, effect with the see. but what's really interesting is that all of the impacts of climate change are being has in every case of the one that's really no, no, no geography that we maintenance cost. and the interesting thing that happens don't happen, separate the basic for us to, to the climate risk don't have isolated but happened one over the other as you've seen in the us. and in canada, horrendous example that last summer when you had to be extreme with records of
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temperature that we've never seen before. no, no, it's by the extreme one, fires and photos then by a huge lun working part facility because of the erosion of the why fi? so all of those impact clarity, i think one on couple of the other and the w need to have done on the norman. and so we're trying to be awareness. i think healthy health systems prepared to be able to cope with the increased health risk. i'm betting that and really to our health of climate change, yoga. emeline, how's your work? and to help us understand this better. go ahead. yeah, thank you for that. and i think the 2 of them, i mean we've all highlighted how health or climate change impacts every aspect of health. and so we've realized myself and my peers that are health professionals and future health professionals. we are walking into a reality where our clinical practice is undoubtably going to be affected and is
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already affected by what's going on. and so how do we prepare a kind of ready health care workforce and education is a super important part of that. and so at emory, we've been trying to find a way that we can integrate that into our curriculum. and that's been a really big privilege to be part of and how we've been able to make that a reality. what does that look like? getting that knowledge about climate change and health into the curriculum, what would i see now that i wouldn't seen 10 years ago? very much so. so again, i think it goes back to the point and knowing that climate change impacts every organ system in the body, the heart, the lungs, the brain, as we've already talked about, it has implications. and our patients ability to access care, as well as our system. our health care system ability to deliver care and we know that that's not felt equally among those who are most vulnerable in our community.
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so just as you said, for me, how do we bring that into our curriculum? something that's so broad and pervasive the way that we've approached that is that since can't be distilled down into an elective or a lecture. but rather, our approach has been re contextualizing what it is we already need to learn what we have to know as a medical students, as it relates to climate change and health. to give you an example, our curriculum with an emphasis on the pre clinical phase, which is learning how the body works and what happens when things go wrong is examining it through a climate. and so for our, our course on the cardiology, when we learn about the heart, we have to zoom in and look at how heart disease developed from our vessels that impact our heart, that can lead to heart attacks or heart failure. and we basically look at what we already need to know through the lens of climate and the way that he might increase that risk or the way the air pollution may increase that risk. air pollution also
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affects our lungs just as maria said, as so for us, when we learn about asthma, what does that look like? and of course involve the learning about the physiology about the lungs, but also has implications in the way as students we learn to take a thorough medical history. examining the risk factors that our patients are exposed to be it by virtue of the work that they do, they live close to an error. what? sorry, yes i, no, no, i just a wonder that i, you see such a pleasure to hear you because we need so strongly the voice of the medical students they, they health professionals and for people to understand that this is a very serious public health issue. as well, and, you know, i used to be honest to been a medical to them myself a little bit long time ago. but they prepare to us that medical schools, they prepared us to treat patients, you know, to, to pure the sees is to offer the best of that technology. and the knowledge to once
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you have developed that he sees, i will treat you. and today if we need their health professionals, of voices in these agenda of climate change, these because climate change in their pollution touching the dealer. so if i want to have access to say food, clean air, save walker and shelter, and we are all getting all of that we, we don't produce food because we have a flooding. if we have a co secret that we've come into our lungs and from i would like to go into the bloodstream and, and all of these, nobody can say that this is not an issue for health profession. and these, these, our business very, very much so use is it has to be incorporated and we need the voice of the health professionals. in asthma, you can not just to keep treating us like you need to understand why this person is having asthma. and he's because they leave from very, very polluted. see this,
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the most of the case, all right, gas. so i have so many video comments, and i want to run it by good. i'm going to do that for the next section of our conversation. this is tanya and tie and make some really interesting points about air pollution and what we need to do with the information, how we collect that information. marina. i want you to listen to tyler an immediate respond on the back of his video. he's we know that air pollution exposure is responsible for an incredible amount of avoidable death around the world. in fact, a harvard study recently put that number at 8000000 avoidable desk globally with the right information at the right time. we can help not only individuals reduce their own exposure, but also researchers and policy makers to be able to advance our understanding of the problem, but also to make changes to policy frameworks, reducing exposure thresholds for example. now,
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one of the biggest challenges that we face in this work into create this type of information is getting the data that we need. data sources around the world are often limited to the places with the cleanest air. so how do we fill those gaps? that such an interesting comments are as it is to that we have big data gaps in, in knowing the extent of the damage of air pollution cuz not maybe he's monitor very well. air pollution, but i will go back for house. and lisa, nicely with the biggest conversation, we're just having about the role of the medical professionals. we know what the sources of air pollution are and by knowing the source of the mission and how they're being used, how we've been fossil fuels and other activities that are related to climate change and we're pollution. we know roughly what our exposure might be a we know what to do about that, and that is where their health profession has become. so crucially important not
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only in treating the patients and addressing the cost, but also ensuring that when we respond to climate change, we do it in a way that takes into account the potential health benefits and maximizes those health benefits our response. so imbedding the medical professionals in things like everybody. thank how are we gonna reinvent our cities to be sustainable green cities in the face of the climate crisis and ensuring that the medical profession as i made, we ensure that we meet my air pollution and there for deliver better health for everyone, but they have to really be embedded across all of the domains of plan action and the restructuring of our society. in maria, i was thinking earlier as i was chatting to my team, could there be any benefit, any opportunities from ad climate changing an impact having on a house when i initially did that scroll, it was all terrible things that happened to us around the world. so this is andy andy's from the book is a professor of environmental change and public health at the london school of
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hygiene and tropical medicine. i feel like he's accentuating the positive if there is one, have a listen to him and then respond both of those agencies, climate change as the biggest threat to human health. and that's because it has implications for human health through such a wide range of pathways. there's also no side to that picture, and that is that there are great opportunities to improve health as we move towards a more sustainable economy. as we stop burning fossil fuels, for example, we create less air pollution, which currently kills millions of people. as we move tools consuming more sustainable dias or fruit vegetables, less red meat that can also be highly beneficial to our health, to put all that together as a potential to prevent millions of premature tests and also reduce the risks of interest climate change. well this is the 2nd,
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the point at in this is why at glasgow or the cov 26. we took us totally chilled together with millions and millions that health professionals, what we call it, the health argument for multiplying reduction because in fact, we know that until now people has been terrified by what we were saying about climate change and hauled. these will be affecting your life and called dirty really would be. but we need to present that they all the way around. if you talk of the causes of climate change, if you review was and you go for a transition to renew over sources of energy, clean sources of energy instead of keeping burning fossil fuels which are generating, these are pollution. you can reduce all of these this course, why air pollution? you can, you can read use the fact that the many see this around a wall did the pictures you were showing before of a very, very polluted in full of traffic, a c, t around a wall. it can be mexico,
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see the could be new daily. it could be enough in south africa, it could be not along them because he doesn't look like but the could be any place around the world. because today we are all breathing quite does he care. and that what we can obtain from for our health, if we reduce that their pollution will be amazing. will we be more active lifestyle? we will have more active life is stay in there for reviews. all of those chronic and non communicate with the ccs. we will be able to read that act socially and reduced all the mental health problems we will be able to connect on a different way and our sci fi will be places where we can brief. instead of having all of these diseases associated with the exposure to where pollution, the benefits will be enormous. and i agree that we need to pass our messages in bossier, the because if we go positive with our messages, we will motivate people to engage and to do more to stop or, you know,
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using their private card instead of taking a sustainable transport, a public sustainable transport or using a bicycle or warranty or recycling or so many things that we can do in particularly putting pressure on our politicians for them to do these 3 transitions very quickly, their transition to sustainable sources of energy, clean sources of energy, they transition to sustainable seat this and more liberal and sustainable, and they transition to as sustainable 4th system. so on you change, i feel like i mean, i'm a rallying, maria, thank you. and you know you've got me fired out now on you chief, this is stella dora as illiterate. we need concrete, actionable measures of land management with acknowledgment for funding, for house support, not just studies. i think that i don't think that's a ticket. you emeline, but i think m line, i think that's really
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a water we actually doing about this. you have the information, you have the data. i also think that samantha, although he spoke to somebody earlier, was talking about what the medical profession could be doing to help more have listened to samantha emeline. and then we act on the back. here we get madison is always changing is always evolving and it takes years to change. medical education and climate change is a new variable that we now have to consider. our management of patients. health care is also significant contributor to the problem of climate change. we made about 8.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. so not only do we have to incorporate climate change into our medical education, we also need to adjust our practices so that we're not contributing to the problems . thank you so much for sharing that and samantha,
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for that video. there are a couple of really important parts, one about the value of medical education. and there is also comment about the time to change medical education and ultimately recognizing the role that the health care profession or health care sector has, in fact contributing to the problem. that is, the fact that we are another large source of greenhouse gas emissions. what i think has been really exciting and certainly meaningful for us at emory and within our approach to the curricular process and framework at emory. it's that our process, the way by which we are integrating climate and environmental health content into our curriculum is done collaboratively. now, what do i mean by that? i mean that the faculty and the students are working together. they are creating together that which the faculty teacher teaches as well as that which the student learns. and that partnership is so invaluable for a variety of reasons. one, it's building the relationships between faculty and students,
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and faculty and faculty. it shows that we are all in this together and that we are all learning together. and that it's not necessarily about being a comment and health expert while that's so important. and we hope that that is a byproduct of our curriculum. it is hopefully going to show that understanding climate impacts on health as part of the every day now. and i, i think i'm going to interrupt you because i have about right. and it's a sure i was gonna say it's a huge, but double entendre and not me, not mentor. i want to bring in calling because colleagues, wonderful. okay. and you know, cali, cali had an experience that she felt was very relevant to this conversation because you were telling us how you need to work as a medical session students to really acknowledge climate change and impact on health. and then this is a little story that cali told us if you're not going to go to medical school in
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the 2018 dudley and attractive kemper was raging through the nearby town of paradise, california. and at the same time as an awful lot of fire, we were ironically in our preliminary block or long blocking medical school. yet, despite the fact that we were walking to school every day and 95 masks through an airy desk breathing and some of the worst quality air in the world, there was no mention of the health facts of air pollution. our voluntary smoke launched our curriculum. and it felt like a real missed opportunity. what was going on inside the classroom felt entirely disconnected from around is about that world. i'm just going to leave that there is just a contrast from what and i was talking about. and then what cali, experience marina, in the last one minute of i show what is the most important message we need to leave out audience there. now, very aware that connection between climate change and global health. last line, those to you look, auction both are governmental actually to be good action against protecting kind of change in norman as the beneficent or help he can lead not only to avoiding the
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worst, helping parts of canada, but also with deliver cleaner air. we talked about air pollution, it would mean transitioning to healthier green diet mean active. and it means cities that are designed around people that encourage socially instruction. ment i will be basic, i would being so there is a win win situation, but you rarely get in real life and we have this unique opportunity and we really need to act now because we are, you know, by both moments as we exit the colby and then we're trying all to go back to moments react to with our economy when a very, very unique moment. and this is the moment to reinvent the way we behave and transition to work, find that he a healthy and sustainable life. i pay maria marina emeline, thank you so much for helping us understand that connection between climate changing and global health and the impacts that we're all feeling around the world
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