Effort to Reframe Climate Change as a Health Crisis Gains Steam
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December 15, 2021 - 12:54pm
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This article discusses how the COP26 climate summit centered the public health dynamic of the climate crisis for the first time since the first summit in 1992. The meetings noted the direct (i.e. heat waves, flooding, fires) and indirect (habitat growth for species that function as disease vectors, and diminished water quality food security) threats to public health posed by climate change. Focusing on health is a new rhetorical strategy, shifting from concern over endangered species and niche habitats to the general well-being of humans around the world.
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Anonymous, "Effort to Reframe Climate Change as a Health Crisis Gains Steam", contributed by , The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 15 December 2021, accessed 25 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/effort-reframe-climate-change-health-crisis-gains-steam
Critical Commentary
This article discusses how the COP26 climate summit centered the public health dynamic of the climate crisis for the first time since the first summit in 1992. The meetings noted the direct (i.e. heat waves, flooding, fires) and indirect (habitat growth for species that function as disease vectors, and diminished water quality food security) threats to public health posed by climate change. Focusing on health is a new rhetorical strategy, shifting from concern over endangered species and niche habitats to the general well-being of humans around the world.