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Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It Hardcover - 2011

by Paul R. Epstein; Dan Ferber; Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs


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"Changing Planet, Changing Health is a landmark book that will raise our consciousness about how we should respond to a growing emergency and save lives. Dr. Paul Epstein and journalist Dan Ferber offer stunning revelations about the ways that the climate crisis is jeopardizing food security and accessibility to drinking water while propelling disease vectors that are threatening public health worldwide. This book, the first to solely focus on the connection between the climate crisis and its damaging health effects, sounds a clarion call that shows how we can heal the earth, and ourselves."--Al Gore

"Climate change has brought a new imperative to global health efforts worldwide as the 'changing planet' both contributes to the spread of disease and worsens existing inequities. We must be ambitious in our response and heed the personal, political, economic, and institutional advice so keenly prescribed here by Paul Epstein and Dan Ferber. Our collective failure to intervene, or even to understand, portends disaster. But this volume also shows us just how much we can do to slow or arrest these adverse trends."--Paul Farmer, MD, author of Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor and Co-founder, Partners in Health

"You'll never find a clearer or smarter explanation of one of the toughest problems the world faces as the Holocene ebbs and the warming era begins."--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

"Paul Epstein has long been at the forefront in alerting the public and our leaders on the many ways our lives and health are threatened by climate change. Together with journalist Dan Ferber, they have now written the book on the health effects of global warming. From malaria-carrying mosquitoes entering new regions now warm enough to support their life cycle to asthma triggered by higher carbon dioxide concentrations, to lives lost by extreme weather, Changing Planet, Changing Health is a vivid reminder of the urgency of the need for action. It can only be hoped that this sweeping and articulate book will trigger a renewed focus on this crucial challenge at a time when so many are distracted by other events."--Paul Volberding, MD, University of California, San Francisco

"This valuable and insightful book provides, in highly readable form, the most basic reason for concern over human source change in the climate system--the impact this change has on our health."--Paul Andrew Mayewski, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine

"Climate change isn't just 'inconvenient'-- it kills. Bravo to Paul Epstein and Dan Ferber for laying out a clear explication. Deny the heat wave around you? OK, but brace yourself for the hospital bills."--Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and author of The Coming Plague

"Changing Planet, Changing Health is an illuminating, important, and deeply sobering book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

"As compelling as a detective novel, Changing Planet, Changing Health reveals the important--and often unnerving--links between climate and survival in a world in a world in which we are watching our known environment slip away. This is a vital story, and authors Paul Epstein and Dan Ferber have told it beautifully, so that their exploration of human behavior and consequences is wonderfully readable as well as being wonderfully smart."--Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

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  • Title Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It
  • Author Paul R. Epstein; Dan Ferber; Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2011-04-04
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520269095 / 0520269098
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 6.48 x 1.1 in (22.83 x 16.46 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Medical climatology, Climatic changes - Health aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010051311
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.988

Media reviews

Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/2011, Page 20
  • Choice, 10/01/2011, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/25/2011, Page 0

About the author

Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH, (1943-2011) was Associate Director of the Center for Health and Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and a medical doctor trained in tropical health. He contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Dan Ferber is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine. His feature articles have appeared in many publications, including Popular Science, Audubon, and Nature Conservancy.
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