Climate Postcards: Insect-Borne Disease
Climate Postcards:
Climate Change Makes Me Sick!
Insect-Borne Diseases
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Below, you will find detailed information, resources, and opportunities to take climate-protective action.
How does climate change affect insect-borne diseases?
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What can I do to help fight climate change?
- Spread the knowledge
- Use our postcards to query your federal, state or local government representatives: What are they doing to protect your community from the dangers to health posed by climate change?
- Climate change is accelerated by burning fossil fuels. In order to slow climate change and protect air quality, we must replace fossil fuels with renewable energy and energy efficiency.
- Join PSR’s Activist List.
Resources
- U.S. Global Change Research Program (2016, April 4.) The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment
This government study documents “what we know about the impacts of climate change on public health, and the confidence with which we know it.” It examines a broad range of health impacts as they affect the health of the American people, not just in the future but right now. - PSR: Climate Change and Health: Insect-borne disease (Fact Sheet)
- Welch, Craig. National Geographic (2015, September 15) Why the Arctic’s Mosquito Problem is Getting Bigger, Badder.