Climate Change, the “Third Pandemic”

The plagues and disasters connected with both Covid-19 and racism have come to the forefront of our lives.  Then too, there’s a third disaster or third pandemic: global climate change.  It’s already killing people and ruining lives.  When it really hits full force, the impact will likely be even more destructive than the coronavirus.  Yet it’s connected to both racism and to the coronavirus.

Here are a few articles which are related to these ideas.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/fighting-infectious-diseases-connection-climate-change

https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-infectious-diseases

https://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/summary/en/index5.html

 

Q&A: Could climate change and biodiversity loss raise the risk of pandemics?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2020/06/12/3-common-things-in-race-coronavirus-and-climate-change-debates/#3462d2ad7119

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/09/the-links-between-racism-and-the-environment-frederick-hewett

 

Thoughts at Large: