public policy

October 16, 2009

Climate change and the health care debate

Karen Holl

Evidence is growing that climate change is already impacting human health and threatening lives with flooding, drought, and fires as temperatures increase. Legislation to reduce these effects is being overshadowed by the health care debate, but addressing climate change now will generate health care savings, says Karen Holl (2008). Read her op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News.

 

James (Sandy) Rikoon

University of Missouri-Columbia, Professor of Rural Sociology; Director, Community Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture Program