https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=900 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:56:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=900&cpage=1#comment-65425 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:56:17 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=900#comment-65425 I strongly agree with Ebi’s and your point about climate change and health, that adaptation/preparation should stressed alongside mitigation efforts. I think this is a classic example of needing to bring together people with a variety of expertise and expereince to tackle this huge issue is a combined and reinforced manner. An ecologist cannot plan a city’s hurricane evacuation routes efficiently, climatologists cannot distribute vaccines for malaria, yellow fever and other desieses that could increase their ranges significantly with as increased greenhouse effect, and health professional cannot conduct the scientific studies needed to inform environmental policy and law. Climate change presents a new disipline that is multidisiplinary and must be approched in a new way, a way that simultaneously mitigates climate change and prepares all life on earth for the climatic changes to come.

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