“When we think about climate change, often the first image that comes to mind is the Arctic or a polar bear,” said Katharine Hayhoe, co-author and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech. “But the real reason why we care about climate change is because it’s going to affect what matters to us in the places where we live. And what affects us more than our health? We did this study because climate change can interact with diseases and the vectors that carry these diseases.”
The study’s conclusion:
Framing climate change in terms of public health and/or national security may make climate change more personally relevant and emotionally engaging to segments of the public who are currently disengaged or even dismissive of the issue....As for the public, expect to be massively bombarded by all sorts of scare stories about the dangers of climate change to public health soon enough.
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