Climate change is coming for your kids — Who knew children are more likely to die in floods, droughts, heatwaves?

Climate change is coming for your kids — Who knew children are more likely to die in floods, droughts, heatwaves?

http://joannenova.com.au/2018/08/climate-change-is-coming-for-your-kids-who-knew-children-are-more-likely-to-die-in-floods-droughts-heatwaves/

By Jo Nova

Hear Ye! To all the world’s recalcitrant, absent, and neglectful parents, paediatricians have arrived to tell you to give your kids a drink during a heatwave, pack food to last through droughts, and that you really need global unaccountable committees to look after your kids. Presumably their junkets meetings will be paid for by you. Kids are “underprioritized”? (So what do they think 2 billion parents are doing?) Children are highly vulnerable to health risks of a changing climate “…researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Irving Medical Center set out some specific challenges associated with the impacts of climate change on the world’s 2.3 billion children and suggest ways to address their under-prioritized needs.“ In a surprising finding, researchers discovered children have “anatomic, cognitive, immunologic, and psychologic differences” which put them at more risk than adults. OK. They’ve noticed kids are small and inexperienced. This will shock all of us who assumed our kids would survive the next flood, malaria, and dengue outbreak without our help. Dear University Academics, when you have kids you’ll discover that nothing reorganizes an adult’s priorities better than offspring. We all (even you) evolved from 50,000 generations […]Rating: 9.9/10 (9 votes cast)

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