Climate Change - A Health Threat for HumanityHeather Howard and Professor Michael Oppenheimer in Broadcast Center
On this episode of the Princeton Pulse Podcast, we discuss the increasingly dire health impacts of global warming – from air pollution to water contamination, higher disease burdens, and a host of other outcomes that directly or indirectly endanger human health and wellbeing. Scientists warn that these consequences will only worsen over time if we don’t take immediate action, and that lower-income countries and communities that are least equipped to adapt will suffer the most.
He discusses an innovative fresh water project underway in a village in India; the need for a collaborative, holistic, team-based approach to such projects and for long-term follow-through. Pines also talks about the effect of global climate change on water availability in the hot countries; opportunities for solar power development in these countries; and a project to design and manufacture an improved threshing machine for Kenyan farmers.
