This Year’s Forest Fire Season Could Be Even Deadlier

[...]destruction of forests itself releases large quantities of carbon. "There's evidence that even short term exposure to poor air quality [such as that caused by haze from the fires] could make us vulnerable to respiratory infections," Dr. Aaron Bernstein, interim director of the Ce...

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Published in:Foreign Policy in Focus 2020, p.1-1
Main Author: Tellez-Chavez, Luciana
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Climate change
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Deforestation
Fire prevention
Human rights
Outdoor air quality
Public health
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Summary:[...]destruction of forests itself releases large quantities of carbon. "There's evidence that even short term exposure to poor air quality [such as that caused by haze from the fires] could make us vulnerable to respiratory infections," Dr. Aaron Bernstein, interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Human Rights Watch. [...]measures will protect health in the short and long term as we fight COVID-19, future viral respiratory epidemics, and the catastrophic health effects of climate change that are already beginning to be felt.Luciana Tellez-Chavez is an environment researcher at Human Rights Watch.
ISSN:1524-1939