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NEBRASKA ON THE EDGE:
Climate change and human health
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL
Evidence
Carbon is the building block of life
CHOCOLATE BUTTER
ALCOHOLSTARCH
Everything that was ever alive has carbon in it.
Burning releases the carbon into the air as carbon dioxide
which forms a blanket around the earth trapping the heat of the sun.
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
THE ESSENTIALS
AIR
WATER
FOOD
SAFE PLACE
Case One
9 year old athlete turns into couch potato
Ozone increases with temperature
Ozone increases with coal exports
Ozone Causes and Worsens Asthma
Thurston GD Am J Respir Crit Care Med RMcConnell Lancet.304):386-91.February 1, 1997 vol. 155 no. 2654-660
Inh
aler
Use
3 Sports = Triple Risk
Ozone ppb
Ozone Kills older people with chronic diseases
OZONE LEVEL
DE
AT
HS
Omaha's Ozone Summers
Ziska, L. H. and F. A. Caulfield. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 2000. 27: 893− 898.
PollenHigher Count Longer Season
Mold Causes and Worsens Asthma
US Childhood Asthma RatesTripled 1960-2009
L Akinbami, 2009 National Center for Health Statistics
5 year old boy hyperactive at home and school
Seasonal Variation in Air Lead and Soil
Seasonal Variation in Childhood Blood Lead
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS AND LEAD LEVELS
Blood Lead
Pro
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ELEVATED AIR LEAD 2011 EPA
Omaha Lincoln Alliance Beatrice Fremont
NE Towns with ChildhoodLead Poisoning Risk
Grand Island Hastings Harvard Nebraska City Scottsbluff
Nebraska Dept of Health and Human Services
2 month old with diarrhea and constant crying
Iowa Women's Health StudyThyroid Cancer Related to Nitrates in Water
NITRATESNebraska Wells Over EPA Standard (red)
Nitrate Impaired Rivers and Streams (black)
Poor Plant Uptake=More Nitrate Runoff
Arsenic in Drinking Water
“Extremely More”Water Stressed by 2025
BLUE GREEN ALGAE BLOOMS
BIOTOXIN: Microcystin
BLUE GREEN ALGAE TOXIN POISONINGS
AMOEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS
Primary Amoebic Encephalitis
NEW: Minnesota 2010, Kansas 2011, Indiana 2012
25 year old woman with diarrhea for 2 weeks
Imported ProduceIrrigated With Reclaimed Water
AFLATOXINMissouri 2012
2008
Fungal Toxins in Grain Crops 2012
68 year old man unable to walk
West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Cases
Mosquitos carrying West Nile Virus
Dengue 1960 2005
DENGUE CASES IN THE AMERICAS 1980-2010
Dengue Mosquitos
Public Health Capacity Infectious Disease Outbreaks
EXTREME HEATEurope 2003 70,000 deaths
HEAT AND DROUGHT INCREASE VIOLENCE
Severe Heat Waves were every 30 years will be EVERY YEAR by 2040.
Journal of Great Lakes Research 36 (2010) 65–73 K Hayhoe
+ 2-3 DEGREES
BY 2030
+ 4-6 DEGREES
BY 2050
Carbon Dioxide Is (pretty much) Forever.
Hu
nd
reds
ThousandsTens of Thousands
YEARS TO REMOVE CO2 FROM ATMOSPHERE
EMERGENCY
2030
40% OBESE
44% CV DISEASE
1 in 5 DIABETES
2050 1 in 2 OBESITY AND CV DISEASE, 1 in 3 DIABETES
ME EITHER
HEART DISEASE, OBESITY, DIABETES; CANCERS:PROSTATE, COLON, UTERUS, RECURRENT BREAST
ONE THIRD
CAUSED BY
PHYSICAL INACTIVITY
ASTHMA, CANCER, HEART DISEASE
HEART DISEASE, CANCER, DIABETES, OBESITY
IN HALF BY 2030 IN HALF AGAIN BY 2050
HOW MUCH? HOW FAST?REDUCING OUR EMISSIONS
A Healthy Prescription
For Climate Action
OVER 1000 US CITIES COMMITTED TO THE 2005 KYOTO PROTOCOL
CLEAN ELECTRICITYINVESTMENT
STOP DIRTY EXPORTS REGULATE POLLUTERS
PUT A PRICE ON CARBON
IMPROVE ENERGY EFFICIENCY
BUILDINGS FUEL ECONOMY
CLEANER LEANER FUELS
20,000 Heart Attacks PREVENTED 23,000 Deaths each year
SAVED: OVER 100 BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR
GET CITY PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CARSSMART GROWTH
BIKEWAYS AND WALKWAYSBETTER PUBLIC TRANSIT
10,000 colon cancers215,000 heart attacks PREVENTED570,000 new diabetes cases each year
ANNUAL SAVINGS SF AREA $1.4-22 BILLION/YEAR
HEALTHY FARMS & HEALTHY FOODSSUBSIDIZE SOIL CARBON
SUBSIDIZE CROP DIVERSITYDECREASE FOOD WASTETURN WASTE TO ENERGY
300,000 Heart Attacks/Strokes PREVENTED260,000 New Diabetes Cases each year144,000 Cancer Deaths
We can have a healthyhigh quality future
if we act now.*
*but we're almost out of time.
HEALTHY PEOPLE = HEALTHY PLANET
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