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Climate Change & Your Health

Climate Change and Your Health

The California Climate Change Center report, "Our Changing Climate: Assessing the Risks to California [pdf]," writes that temperatures in our state are expected to rise between 4.7 to 10.5 degrees by the end of the century. What does this mean for our health? According to the report, these are some major areas of concern:

• The Sierra snow pack is projected to melt between 70-90%, making our water supply unstable.

• Higher temperatures mean worse air quality and an increase in respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Warmer temperatures also lead to wider areas of vector-borne diseases, like lyme disease, and even the appearance of exotics like malaria and dengue fever. And with hotter temperatures, we’re likely to experience longer and more intense heat waves, making summers even more difficult for the elderly, poor and those who work outside.

• Rising sea levels would taint the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta with salt water, affecting almost two-thirds of the state's drinking water.

We are no longer talking about something that will affect our grandchildren. Climate change in California will affect us and our children.

So, we want to hear from you…

What can you do to help offset the affects of climate change and protect your health? What changes can you make in your everyday life? And what changes in public policy or new regulations could make a difference?

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OMG!! Was that a scary show tonight! I told someone at a party I went to after listening to it in my car, and they said why were you listening if it was so scary. And I said because it does no good to stick your head in the sand about these tremendously important issues. Tomorrow I am calling my state representatives, the governors office, my congressman and Eric Garcetti, President of the Los Angeles City Council. I have asked that the City instigate a rebate for each square foot/yard of sod pulled up to incentivize people to get rid of one of the greatest wastes of water in each household. I contacted Councilman Garcetti's office several months ago after seeing a documentary called "Gimme Green" about lawns and showing in, I think Palm Springs or Las Vegas, where such an incentive was put in place. I have already pulled up my front lawn and am planting native plants, and I haven't watered the back yard since the beginning of the year. I recycle my dish and bath water on my plants, and only flush the toilet when necessary.

In addition, earlier this year I had t-shirts made with the logo "Got Water?" (see attached photo, go to www.gotoyouyoga.com for more info) made in North Carolina of organic cotton with water based ink. The logo of Heal the Bay, in Santa Monica, is on the back. I go to festivals and farmers markets where I have lots of material to pass out to educate people even if they don't buy a shirt. I have been showing the low levels of Lakes Powell and Mead, but now I will also talk about of the levies in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, especially for people in Southern California who don't understand the importance of the Delta to our well-being.

My membership to KPCC has lapsed, (aren't we all more strapped for cash these days) but I will send in a check with a t-shirt for Rachel Miro. This was a hugely important show, frightening as it was.

Lastly, I have Stage IV Melanoma and count each day as a blessing. But I also have a 17 year-old son. I am as worried about climate change for his generation as I am worried about the implementation of a draft.

P.S. I have been driving a Honda Civic Hybrid for 6 years, and put solar panels on my roof after seeing "An Incovenient Truth" two years ago.

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1) Don't drive everywhere. A dash to the store for some milk can easily be accomplished with a bicycle and a bicycle basket. 20% of all car trips are 1 mile or less, and 40% of all car trips are 2 miles or less.
2) I turn off every single light in the house by 10. More work can be done early in the morning, when there's actually sunlight.

We will be affected: the cry of the high school and college students of today.

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Ditch the plastic
Bring cloth bags to the market
Buy organic food
Switch to double pane windows
Replace old appliances
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Build a "beach" house in the mountains way above the high water line. Good for mental health...

Strict preservation of the mother earth. Meaning, shun from using chemicals, eradicate all kinds of pollution, strict implementation of "earth-saving device". These and more should start from home. We are what we eat, so better eat only toxic-free and preservative-free food. Some points to ponder from the advocate of only toxic-free food hampers.

Refrain from burning anything harmful like tires, plastics and the like. Although this sounds too small to contribute, the impact of this toxic is very harmful to the environment particularly to our health. Strict implementation of pollution control and active information dissemination should be done. incontinence products.

Build a "beach" house in the mountains way above the high water line. Good for mental health..
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A few small thing can make a huge difference

Ditch the plastic
Bring cloth bags to the market
Buy organic food
Switch to double pane windows
Replace old appliances
and the list goes on

We need to act now for our children sake
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"Higher temperatures mean worse air quality and an increase in respiratory and cardiovascular diseases"

That is Very True..

On the personal level:

I think we can drink more water...and not soft drinks
Eat more fruits and vegetables
Organic Food is a must

Publicly speaking:

Put more attention on the recycling and lower pollution...
We are destroying the air we breath with, when will we all wake up? When it's too late?

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Climate change is a danger looming around our heads. If you were to ask Amy, we have ignored these dangers for far too long as we always believed that science will find an answer to reverse the changes ... and its not going to affect us in our 80 year life span anyway. But its here for us to see and open our eyes to

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Do more recycling and be more environmentally friendly. Even so, a single person will not do much unless others join in.
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Support all environmental campaigns of the government. Follow the rules in recycling materials. Try to buy earth savings' appliance even light bulbs to conserve energy. Government must also start to support inventors who use alternative source of energy that is environment friendly.

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I think we can no longer ignore the eco problem. If we don't address it now, it will be out children that will face the consequences. Do you want them to face such a bleak future? If not, we need to take action now.
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Please visit maldives before rising sea levels consume the land.
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OMG I just texted my BFF and he said that it was like wow OMG but since we won't be alive by the end of century and don't have kids it shouldn't matter too much. I always said that trying to save the whales would lead to this but nobody would listen.

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